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03Lightningrocks wrote: The visual of setting an attacker on fire with my 442 is nothing but funny.

Mosin Nagant carbines are also good for that. Use an M44 with attached bayonet, and you can skewer, shoot, clean, and roast a deer all in one fluid motion!
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03Lightningrocks wrote:JSThane brings up a point I was pondering. With the barrel being so short, is there really any point to +P ammo??? My thought process has to do with the extra powder used in +P loads just blowing out the barrel rather than helping to increase pressure and thus velocity or ft.lbs? Not having many options in factory ammo right now, I have yet to find any 38 +P but once I get powder and such I may not load them hot anyway.

A few years back, I had a bud with a .44 magnum in a 2 and 5/8th inch barrel. That had to be the dumbest gun I ever shot! That thing would kill your hand with magnum loads. We would load a magnum round in it and fire it for laughs. He usually fired the .44 special rounds in it. We put a couple rounds of .44 magnum I had loaded for my ruger redhawk in 7 and some odd inch barrel through it. I think more powder shot out the sides of the barrel than burned.

Anyway. My thought was that I most likely would just carry the 38 special rounds in it. No +P.

Keep the comments coming folks. I am getting a good education on this weapon. Thanks again everyone!

I carry +P in mine, and shoot maybe 10 or 15 +P a year, just to remind myself how they shoot. My thought is, "If the extra powder doesn't result in extra power, maybe it'll at least set the attacker on fire!"

I used to have a Taurus Tracker in .44 Magnum. While my 442 may be the worst recoiling gun I currently own, that Taurus has to be the worst I've ever fired! Forget micro-sledge or ball peen hammers, that thing was like an 8 pound sledgehammer! And this was with a "recoil absorbing" grip and a ported barrel! I got rid of that gun in a hurry!

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03Lightningrocks wrote: LOL...I am lucky to be single. A wife might find my excesses a bit hard to deal with.

I am lucky that my wife enjoys my "excesses" and only has one rule - she gets to try it first.

For instance, she actually likes my own 442.

On the 442, don't be surprised when it bites back. I love the little revolver as a "corner store" gun, it drops in a pocket easily, BUT... shooting defensive (+P) loads through it feels like I'm giving my thumb a little love-tap from a mini sledge. Shooting light practice ammo reduces that to ball-peen or tack-hammer level, but it still hurts. It's quite frankly the worst recoiling handgun I currently own, including my .44s and a single-shot .454.

All that said, it's a great little revolver. Once you get it to the range, let us know how the spring change worked. The trigger is my one real complaint; the recoil, while painful, is manageable with practice, but the trigger, while smooth, is heavy and stacks.

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