I got nothing but praise for Taurus now

[Cottonwood]

First off let me say that I am a believer in Taurus strength NOW!

The other day I went shooting with my new 2" Taurus Tracker in 44 Mag... After shooting the first 5 rounds and tried to extract the empties I figured what the When shooting this it was not un-managable, did not feel over excessive recoil, so I figured it was just tight cylinder walls.  So I just continued to shoot until I had fired most of the box of reloads that I had with me.

I believe this morning I found out what caused my cases to stick and have super hard extraction. I really begun to wonder about the Fed Mag Primers first off. But after talking with a friend last night he told me that for sure I had an over pressure problem.

Here was my load:

Speer 240-gr JSP
Rem Brass
Fed large pistol mag primers
WW 231 8-5 gr (So I thought)

Well I decided to first back off the powder charge, and change back to Large Pistol Primers. But low and behold I looked at my ballance beam scale and I could have sworn the setting was at 8.5 gr..... I nearly fell out of my chair when I discovered that it was set at 13.5 gr... the large weight was set on the second mark indicating 10.0 gr, and the small weight that is over the tray was still set at 3.5 gr.

I could have seriously hurt using an over charge of 13.5 gr of 231. The maximum load is 11.0 gr for the 240-gr JSP bullet.

Can we say that some one was deffently watching out for me!

Two things are in order... better lighting at my reloading bench and better reading glasses.

I just had to share this with you guys that I did a REAL BIG I BLOW IT.

I have fully inspected the Tracker and it shows no signs of cylinder stress or frame stress, and none of the cartridge casings show any signs of stress cracks.

[mykeal]

Run, don't walk, to the nearest store and buy a lottery ticket. You may have some of that luck left over.

[mg66]

I guess that's the reason I always hand measure with a digital scale, all my 44 mag loads 

[Cottonwood]

I guess that's the reason I always hand measure my 44 mag loads 

Using the ballance beam scale is hand measuring and weighing.  I never just trust the powder measure.  But for the life of me, I couldn't believe that the large weight was set on 10.0 gr.  With the combination of needing a light that shines directly on the face of the scale instead of just a bright overhead, and better glasses.

I passed this along hopefully to prevent another reloader in doing what I did, which could of ended in the worse case sinario.

[454-hunter]

I figure you where being watched out for but, it does say something for the strenght of the cylinders of your gun I agree they may not be the tightest toleranced guns but are very strong.

[Cottonwood]

Went back to the range with both 240-gr SWC using 8.0 gr of WW231 and 300-gr LTC using 8.0 gr of Unique.  Both of these loads produced like tight grouping.  Felt recoil was mild, probably could of stood a bit more without any complaints.

[454PB]

This is one of the advantages of digital powder scales! Glad neither you nor the gun was hurt.