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Razorbacker
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Loading for the .45 Colt
I know what my heavy hunting loads will be but if they will group in my .454 Casull Then I'm gonna use those in it and semi-retire my Bisley for snake charming, camping hiking, kit gun duties. So I need to order some bullets. I'm thinking of 250 grain hard cast with single digit grain loads of H 110 maybe 9 grains or so. Any better ideas?
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You can single digit reload it with Unigue, 9 grs under a 250-260 gr bullet is an ancient standby load.
12 grs of bludot is also a very good load with the 250-260 gr bullets.
Same thing for .44spl loads I want for my 29.
Reckon I'm on the hunt for pistol powder again.
But at least I can still order bullets.
And that's all you ought to need. I just put a 243 grain Keith SWC 1911 load through the milk jug test today at a chrono'd 840fps. Six jugs probably would have stopped it. Unfortunately, all I had was five.
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Thanks I will look up those published loads and ad those powders to my list of unobtainiums around here.
And the odd thing about this is Winchester 296 is the exact same powder and there are no such warnings about reducing the loads when using 296?????? Go figure.
From here and MANY other sources, I've read this. But still fer some reason when using H110, I follow the 3% rule!
thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-186089.html
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The powders I regularly use in both are as follows:
PB, 231, Unique, Trail Boss, SR4756, Universal, Titegroup, Bullseye, HP38 (same as 231), Solo 1000 and 700X.
All of these powders work fine although I find PB to be the less accurate of the bunch. I load only 255 grain SOFT bullets.