What powders should I look to first?

[2013cossj]

I 've never loaded for this round before. A friend of mine has a Win 94 carbine chambered in .44 Rem Mag. He wants to shoot the 225 g FTX Hornady bullet out of Hornady brass. What powders should I look to first? Thank you in advance!

 

[KevinNC]

H110 if you are looking for full power loads.

 

[TackDriver284]

What Kevin said.

 

[bdbrown66]

Don't overlook Accurate #9. Just slightly faster burn rate than H110. Gives excellent results in my warm 45 Colt rifle loads.

 

[Johnly]

I'll add Alliant MP-300 and Hodgdon Lil'Gun to the list.

 

[JD338]

H110, W296 and Accurate #9 would be good powders. I have used H110 for decades with excellent speed and accuracy.

JD338

 

[RL338]

H110 is an excellent powder for the 44 Mag.
Hornady has a recommended case trim length for that bullet.

 

[highoctane]

As most have said, H110 is an awesome powder in the 44 mag. It likes to be used "full strength"!

 

[KinleyWater]

H110 is an excellent powder for the 44 Mag.
Hornady has a recommended case trim length for that bullet.
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I wanted to reiterate this. You have to trip your brass to much shorter than normal with the FTX. As a consequence, you can only use that brass for the FTX - though, I suppose you could do 44 Special level loads in the brass using other bullets -

I have used W296 in 44 Magnum as well as 357. It works very well. For an economy load, I use BlueDot, which produces somewhat smokey and certainly less powerful loads. I DO NOT know if you should use something like BlueDot with the shorter case for the FTX.