globemountain: I've had similar experiences with the 44 magnum, and I don't doubt a bunch of other fellas have too. It seems that when you start busting caps on the real heavyweight loads, getting on back to standard magnum velocity loads and pressures make them seem so light that you would almost consider them 'whimpy'.
I had taken up the effort with some heavily loaded 300 grainers in my Mountain Gun until I realized they were geting to be a bit much and I wasn't going to be hunting anything I would need that bullet for, especially in my neck of the woods. So, when I dropped back to the 240 grainers, even at near max velocities, they seemed so much lighter that I wondered if I had properly charged the cases. Then, in the same range session I began shooting some 200 grain reloads I had brewed up just to shoot up the 200 grain bullets I had laying around, and the darn things almost felt like target loads. After the first cylinder full of those, I went to a one-handed target stance and grouped very nicely at 50 yds.
Exactly one week later when I went back to the range with a couple of boxes of the 240s, expecting the same 'lightweight' response, I got 'woke' up realizing that even the 240s were nothing to scoff at. This is just so much fun. I wish I had time for more.
Oh! Also, some factory loadings in the 240 weight for the 44s do seem to be very much on the lightweight side, and I agree with your thoughts that it was probably that particular Blazer load the the Old Griz felt was whimpy. Mikey.
