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To duplicate the profile of the hardball loads I look to the Lyman #452374RN and/or the RCBS #45-225RN. This does not seem to be the case with currently offered 1911s and I have tried these loads in well over a dozen such pistols with nary a problem. There was a time when it was difficult to find a 1911 that would function flawlessly with SWC bullets. So it seems the magic number for this bullet and these powders is 5.0 grains. With 5.0 grains of W231 the muzzle velocity is 800 fps with a group of just over 1″ 5.0 grains of Red Dot, 900 fps, 7/8″ and 5.0 grains of Bullseye results in 855 fps and just over 1″. I have shot it a lot in the Springfield Armory Range Officer. This #452460 bullet has proven to be accurate with several different powders.
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The latter drops bullets very quickly, however at this stage of my life my hands get tired very quickly from the weight of the steel mold. I have been using the Lyman #452460 cast bullet probably longer than any other design starting with a single-cavity mold, moving up to a double cavity and the latest being a four-cavity design. For an easier-shooting load, I go with 5.0 grains of W231 with any of these bullets for just over 825 fps. Switching to the #45-201 from RCBS and the Oregon Trail 45-200 SWC, both over 7.0 grains of unique and fired in the same TRP, result in 1″ groups and muzzle velocities of 1,088 and 1,053 fps respectively. These results are from a Springfield Armory 5″ TRP 1911. The Lyman #45260 in the hollow-point version over 7.0 grains of Unique results in 1,050 fps and a five-shot group of just over 1″ while in the standard non-hollow-point bullet with 7.5 grains of Unique - that I now use more sparingly - muzzle velocity is over 1,075 fps with 1″ groups. While I started using 7.5 grains of Unique, I have since mostly pulled back slightly to 7.0 grains resulting in loads about 30 fps less in muzzle velocity. What follows are some of the current powders and bullets I am using so let us take a look at some of the cast bullets I use beginning with the above-mentioned 200-grain SWCs. I started back in the late 1950s using commercial cast round-nose bullets and powder that’s no longer available. In fact, one could fill a book with nothing but. 45 ACP as well as a long list of bullets. There are so many excellent powders applicable to the. All of this ensures reloads will function in any 1911 I happen to use. First, all brass is sized using the Lee Undersized Carbide Sizing Die, then case mouths are expanded just enough to accept the bullet using the Lee Universal Expanding Die and then, after placing the proper powder charge and seating the bullet without crimping, I turn to the Lee Factory Crimp Die. 45 ACP rounds - and I do mean all - are loaded the same way. As outlined in the first installment of this series, all of my. I load and shoot large amounts of cast bullets of several types in my 1911s.