Shooting the 44 Magnum cast with the large round hollow point, 1:40 alloy with a BHN of 8.0 into Clear Ballistics Gel from my S&W 29 with a 6.5" barrel.

Shooting the 44 Magnum cast with the penta hollow point, 1:16 alloy with a BHN of 10.4 into Clear Ballistics Gel from my S&W 29 with a 6.5" barrel.

Shooting the 44 Magnum cast with the large round hollow point, 1:25 alloy with a BHN of 8.7 into Clear Ballistics Gel from my S&W 29 with a 6.5" barrel.

Shooting the 44 Magnum loaded with the 200 grain Speer GDHP at about 1100 fps into Clear Ballistics Gel from my S&W 629.

Casting .44 Keith bullet and powder coating

Range time with the 629, bullet is the 429421 Lyman over 9.6 grns of VVN320

A quick chat over coffee about my start to bullet casting.

Keith mold for 44mag

Casting Keith Semi-Wadcutters with the Lyman 429421 Four Cavity Mold for .44 Special Skeeter Loads. I use my electric brewery equipment to control the temperature of the 220 Volt LEE Pro 4-20 Bottom Pour Pot.

This is the sixth video in the Powder Coated Cast Lead Hollow Point Bullet Testing series, which is a long experiment testing powder coated cast lead hollow point bullets made from various alloys and fired at various velocities. In this video I measure, size, and weigh each of the bullets that will be used for this test.

The "Skeeter Load", which is a 250 grain cast SWC loaded in a .44 Special case with 7.5 grains of Unique powder, is one of my favorite loads.  This load, named for Skeeter Skelton, shoots from my 6 1/2" S&W Model 29 at about 950 fps.  I want to duplicate this velocity when shooting the same bullet from my S&W Model 629 TALO Deluxe, which has a 3" barrel.