.244 Halger

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The .244 Halger High Velocity Magnum (also referred to as .244 Halger H.V. Magnum, or simply .244 Halger) was an early hyper-velocity rifle cartridge devloped in Germany by "Halger" company. To paraphrase Elmer Keith in his American Rifleman article "The .250 O'Neil Magnum" (April 1937), this was a notoriously accurate cartridge and was inspiration for the O'Neil cartridge to live up to. According to our research, it seems the .244 cartridge is the more obscure of the two rounds created by Halger, the other being the .280 Halger Magnum.

= Ballistic Performance

According to this auction listing at Morphy Auctions, The Halger firm advertised the cartridge as containing an 87-grain bullet, with a muzzle velocity of 3,770 feet per second (1149 meters per second) for a muzzle energy of 2,746 ft lbs of energy (3,723 Joules).

Bullet Weight Velocity Muzzle Energy
87 Gr. 3,770 ft/s (1149 m/s) 2,746 ft lbs (3,723 J)