bunnspecial
Regular Member
Anyone on here have much experience with the 44 special?
I'm close on buying a pre-war S&W Hand Ejector in 44 special. I'm interested in it more as a collectible/historic gun, but I've also heard a lot of talk recently about folks using it as a self defense round and also see that a lot of the common self defense rounds like gold dots and critical defense are available loaded in it. It seems on paper ballistically similar to(although less powerful than) .45ACP.
From looking at the cost of range ammo, I think I'll need to get into reloading(something I'm planning on doing anyway) to be able to afford to shoot it enough to be confident in it, although the self defense loads are not that different in price from what I'm use to paying for .38 special and .357 magnum.
Is anyone using this round for carry?
I'm close on buying a pre-war S&W Hand Ejector in 44 special. I'm interested in it more as a collectible/historic gun, but I've also heard a lot of talk recently about folks using it as a self defense round and also see that a lot of the common self defense rounds like gold dots and critical defense are available loaded in it. It seems on paper ballistically similar to(although less powerful than) .45ACP.
From looking at the cost of range ammo, I think I'll need to get into reloading(something I'm planning on doing anyway) to be able to afford to shoot it enough to be confident in it, although the self defense loads are not that different in price from what I'm use to paying for .38 special and .357 magnum.
Is anyone using this round for carry?