ExSoldier

This sums it up in easy to understand terms: Indoor use of a 44 maggie....

SOUNDS LIKE THE CRACK OF DOOM
KICKS LIKE TENNESSEE WHITE LIGHTNING
Guaranteed to destroy your night vision after the first shot.

Use a 12 ga instead and get better results.

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the-fly

44 special is an excellent choice. 200gr Gold dots would work nicely too.

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David III

44 Magnums inside are stunningly loud (as everyone else has said). Penetration is odd. It's a long story not worth the space, but I used to shoot a lot of cows. Many, many. Sometimes, a 180 JHP would stop right in the head cavity and sometimes rocket right through.
Dogs, too (feral dogs - I worked on a ranch). Just never knew. Using Federal 180 hollow points, about 50/50 on moving through (would always blow the dog down though). One round went through a dog, through both sides of an abandoned house, through a concrete block wall and punched into an old refrigerator. I guess the cavity got plugged initially so no expansion.
The 44 Mag is probably my favorite round and I once in a while use it for carry - but with specials. That magnum blast is why my ears ring all the time.

Ride4TheBrand

Good points all. Years ago I was shooting a .357 while standing inside a dried out stock tank here in Texas. No ceiling, mind you, but the end result was that I now have permanent hearing damage in my strong side ear. (young and dumb, I didn't use hearing protection)

.44 magnum in an enclosed space? Yikes!

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Roadrunner

If you do this, I would use the lightest .44 Mag load you can find or a .44 SPL. CCI Blazers shoot very accurately from my 629 (of course it does have an 8 3/8" barrel, so YMMV) and the noise and flash at the indoor range I shoot at aren't appreciably worse than .45 ACP. Bear in mind again that I'm shooting from a very long barrel, and wearing hearing protection at the range. It's still very loud. I like the idea of these for SD though, because even a light .44 Mag is pushing 240 gr. bullets at 1180 fps. If that doesn't put a BG down, I doubt anything else you hit him with will work either.

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KC135

Cor Bon 44 Special 165grJHP at 1150fps velocity, looks very good in jello, as does the 165gr 44Mag at 1300fps.

Winchester ST did very well in jello from a 2.5" 296.

these results are located at www.stoppingpower.net in the 'Test Bed' forum.

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