Keith's monthly magazine columns carried further exploits. In 1962 Bob Petersen wrote in Guns & Ammo about a successful Alaskan brown bear hunt. 44 Magnum was an immediate success among hunters, its popularity being vigorously promoted by shooting press. of #2400, using standard primers and Ideal #429421 extracted easier, showing less pressure than factory Remington and Western Super-X loads. General Hatcher's review appeared in the March 1956 issue. Hatcher, technical editor of American Rifleman.
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Serial number S130942 was shipped to Julian S. 44 Magnum Hand Ejector was announced in December, 1955. 44 load, he also urged Carl Hellstrom at Smith & Wesson to build the revolver for it. While Keith pressed Remington to produce the heavy. When Hercules #2400 came out in 1930, 18.5 grs in balloon-head cases or 17.5 in the “new” solid head cases allowed him to reach 1200 fps. Using heavy loads of SR80, he was able to reach 1150 fps from the 6” barrel. The #429421 gave Keith the long range accuracy and deep penetration he sought. This long-nosed, semi-wadcutter with large meplat and full-diameter front driving band above the crimp groove, carried up better at long range than his earlier parallel-sided, bore-riding, blunt-nosed Modern Bond designs. The Keith bullet we know so well today culminated in the Ideal #429421 which appeared about 1928. Keith’s load development was a multi-pronged approach combining extensive experiments in cast bullet design with pressing the design limits of existing guns and powders. His experiments and adventures are described in great detail in his book Sixguns (1956). Keith wanted substantially greater energy, with deep, straight-line penetration to be able to shoot completely shoot through elk, moose or bear from any angle. While accurate, the LRN ammo lacked knockdown power for big game hunting or self-defense, because they frequently tumbled when penetrating soft targets. Actual revolver velocity of WRA-headstamped loads assembled in balloon-head cases, which I’ve chronographed, was just shy of 700-fps from my S&W Model 29-2 with 4-inch barrel.
44 Special cartridges before WW2 drove a 246-grain lead, round-nosed, cup-based bullet at 770 fps with 6 grains of Infallible or 5 grains of Bullseye, as measured from the solid 6-inch industrial test barrel. 44 Special First Model Hand Ejector (Triple Lock Target). 44 Special loads in the 1920s, first firing them in Colt Single Actions, and later, in the S&W. Elmer Keith began experimenting with heavy.
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