Range Day!

[Timothy]

If you reloaded you could bring down those .44mags a little and make them more enjoyable to shoot.  

Timothy:  To answer the question from your SIL, Blazer "brass" as long as it is brass, re-loads just fine.   No problems.    If it weren't for the headstamp, I'd have guessed it was Starline, by the overall look of it.   Thanks.

The owner of the Model 29 said they were down loaded to about 1200 fps on a 200 grain bullet!  Still stout though!

Thanks Alf, I'll let him know...

As far as loading myself, I'm temporarily residing in a mobile home and just don't have anywhere to set up and learn the craft.  Might get into it when we get settled into something more permanent but that requires a job and rebuilding my emergency funds.  Based on what I'm seeing here locally, that will probably require a change in the White House.  Regardless of what we read about the unemployment stats every month, things are not getting better!

[alfsauve]

The owner of the Model 29 said they were down loaded to about 1200 fps on a 200 grain bullet!  Still stout though!

Ah it was a 29.   My 629s are "classics" and have full underlugs and unfluted cylinders.  The extra weight helps a lot.   Of course my arm gets very tired after a couple of rounds holding it up.


 

[Timothy]

Ah it was a 29.   My 629s are "classics" and have full underlugs and unfluted cylinders.  The extra weight helps a lot.   Of course my arm gets very tired after a couple of rounds holding it up.

Yea, it's a two handed gun for me.  I can and have shot it one handed before but it's a handful for sure!

My old roomy back in my yoot (early 80's) had the SS version of the 29.  I shot that gun a lot in our backyard.  We had an old '64 Mercedes we flipped on it's side one night during a party so we painted targets on it and shot the crap out of it.  That .44 would go clean through and then some.  After about a year, it probably had 10,000 holes through it from all of our armament.