I know everyone wants to know how the new ULTRATITE 444 shoots. I have had mine for over a month now and have shot around 500 rounds of various weight bullets both factory and reloads. Here are my results and my observations. To start with I bench tested the pistol over sandbags at 25 yards. I tried and tried to get some sort of group going but it never would really do it. The best I could get was about 5 inches at that range. I shot 240gr hornaday xtp with 24gr 296 (my favorite 44 mag load) and cci blazer factory 240gr and hornaday 300gr xtp handloaded by me and finally I shot a KEITH 250gr flatbase Hardcast made by leadheads. It is a darn nice bullet. I loaded that with 9gr of UNIQUE. I thought it would be a mild load. I was wrong. It still kicked like he!! in this pistol. The gun would not group anything. This is not my usual experience with Taurus big bore revolvers. I have excellent results with all of them. But not this new ultralite. Another problem with this gun is the sights. I KNOW I KNOW they look great. But the problem is the gun shoots high even when I have the site bottemed out all the way. At 25 yards I could never get it to come on target using a traditional six-o-clock sight picture. The sight is not correct. It looks good but it dosnt function good. I read a review in a magazine on this gun. The person who wrote the article said the same thing about the sights on his copy of the revolver. He also did not get the accuracy he was expecting. Then on top of these issues the recoil even with my lightest loads is punishing. I traded the gun 3 days ago. I could not live with it. I am going back to my SMITH 629 6.5in revolver. I have not one negative thing to say about it. Execpt the price maybe. I had high hopes for that new ultralight taurus. It would have been nice to carry. But if it dont shoot it gets traded. I am going to try one of the liteweight trackers in 357 next. I read good things about them. I try to report my personal test results as accuratly as possible. The good and the bad. I just dont have anything good to say about the new 444 ultralite.
Nebraska Kelly
