QUESTION ON OVERALL LENGTH

[tedbeau]

I'm pretty sure I know what the answer will be but thought I would ask the experts here anyways.

I'm just starting to work up loads for a charter arms bulldog in 44 special. I bought 500 starline cases and 500  xtreme 200 grain rnfp jacketed. Plan on using Unique powder. I have an idea of where I want to be speed wise so I loaded a few batches of 5 rounds at different charges. I havn't gotten a chance to shoot them through my chrono yet. My question has to do with overall length. Manuals show the overall length for a 44 Special at 1.61.  When I set the bullet seating depth to crimp in the cannelure my overall length ends up at about 1.4X (going from memory here on the exact length. That seems short so I was wondering if that's normal with a 200 grain bullet?  I do not plan on loading extremely high pressure so the case volume might not be an issue. How short is too short?

[Yeti]

Depending on bullet design I typically go with 1.50" on 200gr FP/HP bullets.  Go with the cannelure.

SAAMI Max is 1.615, but I like to stay slightly below that.  

Edited April 5, 2018 by Yeti

[Droot]

I have a bulldog. Go with the canalure. Bullets can pull when shooting because it's a light gun.

Furm crimp with good neck tension.

Don't hot rod the bulldog.

David

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[Hi-Power Jack]

On ‎12‎/‎21‎/‎2017 at 1:08 PM, tedbeau said:

I'm pretty sure I know what the answer will be 

 

Good thing you already knew the answer, because it took three months

to get a response  

 

How did you make out ?