I agree with you.Originally Posted by Zak Smith
I bought a lightweight .41 Magnum for hiking. The conventional "Internet wisdom" was that the .41 was the right minimum defensive cartridge for bear & lion.
I've also read of issues with crimp-jump on heavy .44 mag loads in lightweight revolvers.
So I figure if you've got to download .44 anyway, might as well go with a .41.
Now the question becomes, what's the "minimum" .41 load for outdoors?
And as long as I've got it, why not use it as a "car gun" when I'm not hiking?
So the next question, it's what's a minimum self-defense load in .41? I suspect even the lightest factory loads are more than I need.
Mike