For practice and general shooting I load .44 Special cases with 6 grains of Universal behind Lee 430240 cast bullets. They're mild to shoot and accurate enough for me to keep a cylinder full, offhand, on an 8" plate at 25 yards.
Yes, there is a lot of extra space in the case for a double charge. I load all of my pistol ammo on my Dillon 550 press, and after 30-40 years of using it I have the loading sequence down pat. If I get an interruption I always take out and examine the powder charged case before I put a bullet in it.
