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Some old guy named Elmer Keith recommended 8 grains of Unique and a 245 gr SWC for a moderate .44 Magnum load.
Lyman starts at 8.9 grains, Speer at 6.5 gr Unique because their lead bullets are swaged and they don't want to load them fast enough to cause severe leading.
The Lee book is kind of peculiar. The "never exceed" load it lists is the powder company's maximum. The "start" load is the next lighter load for which Lee makes a disc or dipper powder measure. It is not the traditional 10% reduced starting load that most sources give, it is not the lightest load that will give reliable powder ignition like Lyman does for non-magnums. It is just what you can load with Lee fixed powder measure and not get in trouble.
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