It followed me home...

[Iunnrais]

I think that I have a bad case of .44-itis and Lever-itis. Picked this up at the Ft. Worth gunshow a couple weekends back. Had stopped by there with a friend and no intention of coming home with anything. Danged if I didn't spy a decent new make Marlin. It's a remlin, but the action is smooth, wood is nice and it shoots well enough to clean out all of the .44 that I'd brought for plinking with my 629 (mostly light loads with Bayou Bullets, but there were some H110 loads in there). 10+1 cleans out a 100rnd box pretty fast when ringing a steel plate or plinking misc stuff out of the farm trash pile.

[carlson1]

I love to help others so PM me your address and I will come pick it up so you do not have to feed it.

[Iunnrais]

Thanks for the offer, but I think in this case, I'll just have to order up some more brass/bullets and keep a larger stockpile than I did for the revolver :)

It's much easier and faster to load for this guy than it is for my other rifles. (mainly due sizing and charging exercises being much simpler/faster)

[MechAg94]

I snagged a Marlin Stainless 44 Mag a few years back. It is a sweet shooter. A little heavier than the Winchester 92 clones so the recoil is a little easier to take.

As far as ammo, at least the ammo comes in boxes of 50 instead of 20.

[LDB415]

Very nice looking. Congrats.

[Jumping Frog]

As far as ammo, at least the ammo comes in boxes of 50 instead of 20.

In pistol calibers, I handload 9mm, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP.

But it is my handloaded .44 Mag that literally paid for my entire reloading setup.

My favorite round is with my handcasted 255 grain gas checked LSWC bullets over H-110 powder. My cost, including gas checks, is about $13 per hundred.

A comparable commercial round is the Buffalo Bore Ammunition 44 Remington Magnum 255 Grain Lead Keith-Type Semi-Wadcutter Gas Check Box of 20. It is priced at $30.99 per 20, or $154.95 per hundred.

After I had handloaded and shot my first 300 rounds, I had saved $425, which paid for my entire reloading setup at that time. I've since loaded and shot hundreds more.

[Iunnrais]

That's not bad per hundred.

My cost is a bit higher since i don't cast my own. But like you, the .44 loads have bought and paid for the entire reloading setup several times over. I really should get into the casting side sometime to help lower the cost even more. A hardcast LSWC GC bullet over H110 sounds like it'd be quite useful in the rifle.