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wow i paid under $300 for mine

I did my 2.5" & 4" speed sixes with orange (didn't notice the slight glitter till later) did one with a white base and didn't notice a difference besides I had to do 2 coats on the just orange.

So my local gun shop used to carry 4" gp100's in stock. All of a sudden they are carrying the 6" because of demand. Is this a fad or besides the 75-150fps gain is there really that much of an advantage? For practical accuracy I shoot both about the same.

I shoot full power loads out of a smith 69 which is basically a .357 made into a five shot .44 no problem.

I like the Hornady critical deffence for in town and 158 solids for the country.

5 shot bearcat

Seems from bbti.com that a 240gr mag comes out of a 2.5" barrel at 1000fps and my 250gr loads exit my 4" at the same. Seeing as we have small bears in Washington and I can empty either gun at the same speed it wouldn't matter to me which I had.

As far as which round is better just times the bullet weight by speed. Flexibility of ammo goes to the .38 from 100gr at 700fps to 158gr +p at around 1000 Availability of ammo goes to the .38 (I have only seen a few boxes of .327) .38 is cheap while .327 went for $20/20 when I saw it. No idea...

Medium velocity plinkers I check every 25 rounds. Max pressure or target loads I weigh every charge.

My woods carry is 240gr @ 1000fps as stated earlier. My point was that twice the weight at half the speed has the same momentum and shooting them into paper and plank they have roughly the same penetraion. Even with the underloaded special load. My standard carry load mentioned above out...

Roy and Elmer discussed this a bunch. Thought it was settled. Well they settled on big and fast :-)

Medicdave, I have made a few of these in that pattern but use wood grips, mainly cocobolo. Looks like i have another project.

WOW, I really like that knife. Who was the maker?

There really is no significant difference in off the shelf performance. As a reloader the .45 colt has 'magnum' loads and the .44 magnum came from the special. Handloader magazine has loads to get the special close to the magnum. The only advantage I see is that the .44 blackhawk is the same...

Our unscientific test about 20yrs ago was to take a bunch of boards and boxes of catalogs up to the range with a .357 loaded with full power 125's and 158's and a Blackhawk convertible .45 with 250gr and 300gr LSW (cowboy loads). The penetration came out about the same and I shoot the big bores...