[niteowl77]

I stayed away from the .41 Magnum because ammunition - I didn't handload - was not common locally and expensive when it was sighted. There seemed to be a lot of theoretical advantages to that bore size, and I don't remember anyone who owned a revolver in .41 magnum ever complaining about performance.

As far as "flatter shooting," I could be wrong, but given similar velocities and sectional densities, aren't the magnums all going to deliver pretty close trajectories? The way it was explained to me years ago was that a (relatively) hotter, faster .357 load - the bullet and powder weights being lighter than the other two - gave a slight trajectory advantage due to a slightly reduced time of flight, and the average shooter could handle that recoil better than they could with an equivalent .41 or .44 load.

Mr. niteowl77

[yarddog]

In their hottest loadings there is basically no difference between the .41 and .44 mags. The .41 shoots just a little flatter but overall there is little to choose between them.

They both beat the .357 but a hot .357 (and most modern .357 loads are not) is more powerful than most people realize.

[yarddog]

In their hottest loadings there is basically no difference between the .41 and .44 mags. The .41 shoots just a little flatter but overall there is little to choose between them.

They both beat the .357 but a hot .357 (and most modern .357 loads are not) is more powerful than most people realize.