CCI Blazer Brass .357 Mag and .44 Mag Loads Now Shipping

Last updated October 2026 · By Nick Hall, revolver and lever-gun shooter who reads the per-round price before the box art

Quick take: CCI has added .357 Magnum and .44 Remington Magnum loads to its Blazer Brass range ammo line, and both are shipping to retailers now. MSRP is $49.99 for 50 rounds of .357 and $79.99 for 50 rounds of .44. Both come in reloadable brass cases, which is the whole point of the Blazer Brass name.

• What it is: Two new Blazer Brass magnum loads, a 158-grain FMJ flat nose .357 Magnum at 1250 fps (part 5337) and a 240-grain FMJ .44 Rem. Mag. at 1200 fps (part 5244).
• Price: CCI’s October 13, 2026 release lists a $49.99 MSRP for the .357 and $79.99 for the .44, each for a box of 50.
• Where: CCI says both are “now shipping to retailers nationwide,” and its own online store lists the .357 at $47.99 and the .44 at $79.99.
• Why it matters: The cases take standard boxer primers, so every box you shoot leaves 50 pieces of magnum brass for the reloading bench.

Most ammo releases are either premium defense loads with a premium price tag or another bulk 9mm load nobody needed a press release for. This one is neither. It’s plain FMJ range ammo for .357 and .44 Magnum, two cartridges that get expensive fast at the range, and I pulled the release and both CCI product pages so you don’t have to.

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What’s in the Two Blazer Brass Magnum Boxes

CCI’s release, datelined Lewiston, Idaho, October 13, 2026, says the company “is expanding its popular Blazer Brass handgun lineup with two new magnum revolver loads.” Two part numbers. Two boxes of 50.

Part 5337 is the .357 Magnum, a 158-grain full metal jacket flat nose at 1250 fps. Part 5244 is the .44 Rem. Mag., a 240-grain full metal jacket at 1200 fps. CCI’s product pages list the usage for both as “Target Shooting,” and that’s the job.

The pitch is CCI’s stock Blazer Brass description: “reloadable brass cases, quality primers and clean-burning propellants.” The .357 product page adds that “Standard boxer-type primers and primer pockets make reloading easy,” and magnum brass is the brass worth picking up off the range floor.

“Blazer Brass is built for shooters who want reliable performance and real value, whether they’re putting in time at the range or stocking up on training loads,” said Chris Laack, CCI’s Handgun Product Line Manager. “These new additions give revolver and lever-action owners clean function and affordable confidence every time they pull the trigger.”

The Blazer Brass .357 and .44 Ballistics Table

CCI publishes velocity and energy at the muzzle, 50 yards and 100 yards for both loads. The .357 goes from 1250 fps to 1134 at 50 yards and 1048 at 100. The .44 goes from 1200 to 1092, then 1015.

Energy is where the two split. CCI lists 548 ft-lb at the muzzle for the .357 and 767 for the .44. At 100 yards the .44 still carries 549 ft-lb, which is one foot-pound more than the .357 makes at the muzzle.

CCI’s drop figures assume a 25-yard zero with the sights 0.9 inches above the bore, and on those terms the .357 prints 0.6 inches low at 50 yards and 7.1 inches low at 100, while the .44 prints 0.8 and 7.9 inches low, so there’s less than an inch between them at 100 yards even though the .44 bullet weighs half as much again.

Neither product page lists a test barrel length. So treat the table as CCI’s numbers, not your gun’s. A 4-inch revolver and an 18-inch carbine will not print the same velocity from the same box.

What Blazer Brass Magnum Costs Per Round

At MSRP, the .357 is $49.99 for 50, so a dollar a round. The .44 is $79.99 for 50, which is $1.60 a round.

CCI’s own store is a touch cheaper on the .357. It lists the 5337 box at $47.99, or 96 cents a round, and the .44 Rem. Mag. box at $79.99, the same as MSRP. Both were marked “Available” when I checked.

If you shoot a .357 revolver, the cheaper practice round is already in the same family. CCI’s store lists Blazer Brass .38 Special, a 125-grain FMJ at 865 fps, at $33.99 per 50. That’s 68 cents a round, and our breakdown of .357 Magnum vs .38 Special covers what you give up shooting the short case.

Buying direct has limits. CCI’s store does not ship ammunition to Alaska, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island or Washington D.C., and it restricts New Jersey orders to shotshell and centerfire rifle ammunition, which rules these two out. You also have to be 21 to buy handgun ammunition there.

Hunting them down at a dealer? CCI’s listings carry GTIN 604544706178 for the .357 box and 604544705959 for the .44.

Revolvers, Lever Guns and the .44 Nose Question

Laack’s quote names lever-action owners alongside revolver shooters, and that’s a fair read of who buys these. A .357 or .44 Magnum carbine like the Marlin 1894 will go through a box of 50 in an afternoon without trying.

But one detail deserves a second look. CCI’s listing calls the .357 bullet a full metal jacket flat nose. The .44 is listed only as a full metal jacket, with no nose shape given, and the box art doesn’t show one.

If you run a tube-fed lever gun, look at the bullet before you fill the magazine. A tube stacks each bullet nose against the primer of the round ahead of it, which is why lever-gun shooters care about flat noses in the first place.

Revolver owners can skip all of that. Load the cylinder and shoot.

Announced in January, Shipping in October

These two aren’t a surprise. CCI first named them on January 8, 2026, in a Blazer release that listed “two additions of Blazer Brass FMJ” and spelled them out as “357 Mag. 158-grain and 44 Rem. Mag. 240-grain.” The same release announced the Blazer Brass Clean-Fire Suppressor line and two new Blazer Brass JHP loads.

CCI said all of it would be on display at the 2026 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, January 20 to 23, at Booth No. 11838. The Clean-Fire Suppressor loads got their own “now shipping” release on February 23. The magnums took until October.

That’s the same January-to-October gap as the CCI Hunter Series .22 LR, which went out to retailers on October 1. Two CCI shipping notices in under two weeks, both for products the company first announced in January.

A dollar a round for .357. A buck sixty for .44. Keep the brass.

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