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It's a shame things don't always turn out the way they're s'posed to ... nothin' ever turns out right!" So said Harry Carey as the Marshal, to John Wayne as Quirt Evans in the 1947 production Angel and the Badman. He was speaking of being cheated out of hanging the reformed gunfighter-turned farmer, but he could just as easily be speaking of the .41 Magnum. If ever a cartridge did not turn out the way it was s'posed to, the .41 Magnum is it. What went wrong? Several things have worked against the .41 Magnum almost since its very inception....

As I have written before the 41 magnum is special in the magnum class for me. The first game I took with the 41 was a record class feral pig at 400 plus pounds. And it has been exceptionally effective since that day in early 1970. But there is a class of bullets that most don’t think of for the 41 magnum...and that is the heavy weights... What is a heavy weight in the 41 magnum? Most quickly think of the 240 grainers...and that is heavy but only moderate compared to 250 grain thru the 300 grain bullets this caliber...