rantingredneck
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I loaded my first heavy bullet loads for .45ACP for deer hunting this evening. I loaded 260 gr Speer SJHP's (No. 4481) over 5.7 gr. of Win 231, which is about midway between the starting load of 5.4 gr. and max load of 5.9 gr.
According to Speer's data and my best guesstimate at averaging the velocities between their published min/max loads I should be getting right around 790-800 fps with this load. I can't see any reason it wouldn't reliably kill deer within 30-40 yds.
The only problem I had with loading them was getting the seating depth adjusted properly at first. I measured COL on all loads as I loaded them. The first few I was bouncing between 1.196 and 1.204. Speer has the load as tested at 1.20. Once I got things adjusted properly I was consistently hitting around right at 1.202.
I would think that's close enough to be consistent with the published data. I weighed every 5th charge and was getting consistently 5.7 grains of powder. I've found Win 231 to be very consistent in Lee's Autodisk so far.
I'm interested to see what the recoil is going to be like on these loads. Should be a pretty good bit of fun factor for it being a .45ACP. I'll test them out at the range tomorrow with Bennnn. At least he'll be there to take me to the hospital if I KB my P90 .
I doubt that will happen though............
According to Speer's data and my best guesstimate at averaging the velocities between their published min/max loads I should be getting right around 790-800 fps with this load. I can't see any reason it wouldn't reliably kill deer within 30-40 yds.
The only problem I had with loading them was getting the seating depth adjusted properly at first. I measured COL on all loads as I loaded them. The first few I was bouncing between 1.196 and 1.204. Speer has the load as tested at 1.20. Once I got things adjusted properly I was consistently hitting around right at 1.202.
I would think that's close enough to be consistent with the published data. I weighed every 5th charge and was getting consistently 5.7 grains of powder. I've found Win 231 to be very consistent in Lee's Autodisk so far.
I'm interested to see what the recoil is going to be like on these loads. Should be a pretty good bit of fun factor for it being a .45ACP. I'll test them out at the range tomorrow with Bennnn. At least he'll be there to take me to the hospital if I KB my P90 .
I doubt that will happen though............