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longspurr · October 25, 2009, 09:03 AM

"my micro grooved Winchester"
I didn't know anyone but Marlin did micro grooving?

I've loaded 2 bullets. The first per normal - and finding out This Doesn't Work!
The 2nd bullet in a trimmed case to see how short it needed to be to cycle in my Marlin. I found a OAL of 2.57" will work. On line I see 2.54 as normal OAL for normal bullets.

Then I read the Hornady note about not working in a 1-38" barrel.

I have a second possibility of loading these for a Marlin 44 cal cowboy rifle. I believe It has a cut rifled 1-20 twist barrel. But that brings up the problem of load data for the 44 and this bullet. Hornady does not list any data on their web site that I found. I know I would be back to shortening cases for this bullet (or maybe using 44 spec cases?)

At this point I think I will load 5 in shortened cases of the 444 and see how they work.

October 25, 2009, 09:03 AM	#7
longspurr Senior Member Join Date: November 8, 2002 Location: On the western shore Posts: 182	"my micro grooved Winchester" I didn't know anyone but Marlin did micro grooving? I've loaded 2 bullets. The first per normal - and finding out This Doesn't Work! The 2nd bullet in a trimmed case to see how short it needed to be to cycle in my Marlin. I found a OAL of 2.57" will work. On line I see 2.54 as normal OAL for normal bullets. Then I read the Hornady note about not working in a 1-38" barrel. I have a second possibility of loading these for a Marlin 44 cal cowboy rifle. I believe It has a cut rifled 1-20 twist barrel. But that brings up the problem of load data for the 44 and this bullet. Hornady does not list any data on their web site that I found. I know I would be back to shortening cases for this bullet (or maybe using 44 spec cases?) At this point I think I will load 5 in shortened cases of the 444 and see how they work.