Since Marlin doesn't make it anymore, I don't know where else to look. I just sold a 24" barrel CB in .44 Magnum, because it wouldn't shoot the 240 and 265 gr bullets I wanted to shoot very well with that 1 in 38" twist rate. Some 240 gr lead hollow points keyholed at 100 yards no less. Did okay with 215 gr SWC or 200gr, but that wasn't what I wanted to shoot.
Thanks for the help.

1 in 20" 6 grooves Ballard type rifling.:cool:

Since Marlin doesn't make it anymore, I don't know where else to look. I just sold a 24" barrel CB in .44 Magnum, because it wouldn't shoot the 240 and 265 gr bullets I wanted to shoot very well with that 1 in 38" twist rate. Some 240 gr lead hollow points keyholed at 100 yards no less. Did okay with 215 gr SWC or 200gr, but that wasn't what I wanted to shoot.
Thanks for the help.

You must have been shooting them awfully slow. Some of the shooters here have been using 290 and 300gr. bullets in the Marlin .44 mag 1894s. My .444 handles bullets up to about 320gr. before they show signs of not stablizing, at about 2,000fps.

Marlins don't like undersized lead bullets, either, FYI.

I had the same result with 44 Specials and 44 Magnums, lead and jacketed, and particularly some of the 265 gr. magnums were stepping out pretty daggoned good. I don't know what it was, but if 1" in 38" is sufficient, how come nobody else uses anything close to that slow?
Even slugged the barrel and size relationships were okay.