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Originally Posted by Platapus
I used to work with a guy who hot loaded his own .44 rounds. As if the normal .44 round is not powerful enough. 
To him, more power was everything. Unfortunately, not only did he know little about ballistics, he knew little about safe loading.
He had this very nice and expensive Dan Wesson (I think you can see where this is going)
The bad news is that he blew the barrel of his gun.
The good news is that the splinter from that barrel missed his eye by about 1/8 inch and merely dug a divit in the side of his cheek. 
Another data point for "just because you can afford a piece of equipment, does not mean you should."
.44 mag hot loads.  |
That was me in the 80s. Gun magazines said the Ruger Super Blackhawk was capable of extremely hot loads, and I made it my duty to test that out. Can't remember just how many grains or percent I hotloaded, but everyone who saw the gun shoot couldn't get over the ten-foot flames coming out the barrel.
Would not do that now.
