Vance, I've never built any light loads for my 44s' but my 45s' I've had good luck with HS6 I use 11.5gr with a 250 cast. I was just looking and it looks like hodgdon shows a starting load of 12gr of hs6 with a 240gr bullet in the 44, you might give it a try.

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