Gun Digest's Choosing Concealed Carry Revolvers eShort by Grant Cunningham

Author:Grant Cunningham [Cunningham, Grant]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4402-3389-0
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2012-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

The .44 Special and Magnum

The ‘forty-fours’ share the same relationship that the .38 Special/.357 Magnum do: the latter being a lengthened, more powerful version of the Special which predates it. The Special was introduced in 1908, while the Magnum appeared in 1955. The Special demonstrates modest recoil for the caliber, while the Magnum has a deserved reputation as a recoil monster.

The Special is a superbly accurate target cartridge, and while suitable for self defense suffers from a lack of variety in factory ammunition. The Magnum shares the Special’s inherent accuracy and adds a healthy dose of raw power. (Who can forget the first Dirty Harry movie, with Clint Eastwood brandishing a S&W Model 29 and intoning, “This is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world”?) The .44 Magnum is a superb hunting round, capable of taking all manner of North American big game plus not a few of the African species. It is generally considered overly powerful for self defense, but there are those who would argue otherwise.

The .44 Magnum is not a round for a beginner. While not the heaviest recoiling handgun round, it’s still a handful for those who are not experienced in recoil control. In a short barrel the muzzle blast is considerable.

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