44 Magnum cartridges) in a gun chambered for the. 44 Magnum cartridges, as it is chambered for. I expected the Smith and Wesson Model 24 to do better than the Ruger, and it did. I have a bunch of them on my reloading bench. 44s of one flavor or another since Dirty Harry first graced the silver screen, and the 240-grain cast Keith is as good as it gets. The bullet du jour was a 240-grain cast Keith-type semi-wadcutter. 44 Special rounds for this test I just wanted to get a quick look near the top and bottom of the load range for two propellants (and those were Bullseye and Unique). 44 Magnum, and a Model 24 Smith and Wesson in. 44 Special loads in two different handguns: A 200th Year Super Blackhawk in.
The drill was to get out to the range before it started raining so I could test four different. So Saturday was to be another day and another quest for a “secret sauce” recipe (this time for the. But I digress…let’s get back to the topic of this blog. 44 Special (as did the fictional Harry Callahan). Like Harry pointed out, you get a lot more recoil with a magnum cartridge ( f still equals ma, as we are fond of saying in the engineering world), but real men ought to be able to handle it. The idea is the longer case holds more propellant, more propellant equals more pressure, and more pressure means more projectile velocity. 44 Special (it has a longer brass cartridge case), just as the. 44 Magnum, have a relationship similar to the. 44 (think Marty Robbins and his Arizona Ranger ballad), so. 429 wouldn’t have the same ring as the ol’. 44 in any of these cartridges it’s actually 0.429 inches in diameter. To make matters even more confusing, the bullet is not really a. 44 Russian (predecessor to and shorter yet than the. I think the producers tried to squeeze too much milk out of the Dirty Harry cow they should have stopped at Magnum Force and called it a win. To me, that was the best line in Dead Pool, arguably the worst of the Dirty Harry franchise. He explained to his sidekick (a wayward, perpetually-confused female detective) that the. If you were paying attention during the Dirty Harry series, that’s the cartridge ol’ Harry Callahan said he used in his. Nope, this is about the cartridge that preceded the. A Ruger Super Blackhawk up top, and a vintage, hard-to-find Smith and Wesson Model 24.īut this really isn’t a story on the. It was as good an example of product placement as ever existed, and it occurred before the concept of product placement was even created. Before Dirty Harry, gun dealers had to discount Model 29 Smith and Wessons to get them to move after the movie, Model 29s were selling for three times MSRP. 44 Magnum, but Clint Eastwood is the guy who put it on the map. Elmer Keith, Remington, and Smith and Wesson created the. 44 Special: It’s a classic cartridge, one that suggests sixguns, the Old West, and Dirty Harry.
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