Probably more popular with heavierīullets these days, however, is Hodgdon H110/Winchester 296 (110 and 296Īre the same powder in different canisters). This powder is nowĪlliant 2400, and the latest data suggests a maximum of 20 grains with aĢ50-grain Keith-style bullet, and 21 grains with the 240-grain SpeerĪlliant 2400 is still an excellent powder for the. Was then Hercules 2400 and his 250-grain flatpoint. Remington agreed if Smith & Wesson would make the revolvers, and the Lengthening the case so the round couldn't chamber in. Proposed Remington offer a similar factory load, however, they worriedĪbout it being used in weaker revolvers. Provided all the power and penetration needed in a sidearm. He'd used this basic load for years, finding it Special, using a cast 235-grain hollowpoint or 250-grain flatpoint atġ,200+ fps. Magnum today, since it did everything he wanted. There's a reason for this, and one Elmer Keith wouldĪcknowledge: shootability. At one store an observant clerk stated a majority of the 338 Winchester Magnum,Īn informal survey recently made of a local Montana gun storesįound quite few lightly used. Used quite a bit in his later years-and he never asked any factory toīring out a more powerful elk round than the. 44 Magnum in 1955, his next project wasn't After he talked Remington and Smith & Wesson intoīringing out the. There's some evidence he wasn't crazy about 338Ĭonsequently I'm not sure Keith would be all that enamored of When a rifle wasn't around, rather than as a substitute for a. Idea of a good revolver round was something powerful enough to make do Opportunity." Elmer Keith was a Montana and Idaho cowboy, raisedīack when game laws were often bent by circumstances such as hunger. Taken 60-odd big game animals with a handgun all were "targets of Revolver if a rifle was handy, and though he once guessed he'd Rifle with a bullet weighing at least 250 grains. 270 Winchester is "a fine pest rifle,"Īnd his preferred minimum for North American big game was a 33-caliber Of Elmer Keith's writings know he carefully cultivated his Retrieved from ĭuring a conversation at a recent gun show one guy suggested ifįormer GUNS columnist Elmer Keith were still alive he'd be ecstaticĪbout the recent revolver rounds far exceeding the power of Keith's
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