d80, that load data you have in your books is for a pistol load and seriously anemic. My loads for my 1894 .45 marlin with a 20" barrel gets me an average of 1690 fps with my casted 265 gr bullets and right at 1735 with the 225gr FTX's. Pretty much the same results that I used to get with my .44mag rounds in my old .44mag Marlin. The only real advantage someone would get with a .44mag rifle over a .45c rifle would be factory ammo choices if they didn't reload since factory .45lc is pretty weak. They both perform very well and pretty much equally on deer and hogs.
Last edited by super_hunt54; 01-10-2016 at 01:58 PM.