45acp. 200gr vs 230gr

Both of those are heavy enough to be very efficient in making major with modest recoil. You'll likely have a softer feel from the 230's, but some people feel the slide is sluggish with that weight at ~170pf. It really is preference.

Your squadmates will hate you for shooting bare lead, though. Nobody is trying to breathe that ****, and you won't like it when shooting into the morning sun, either. Stick with the coated.

I use a 200 gr hytech swc from Acmes bullets and 4.3 gr tite group in my 1911. My gun really likes this load its really accurate and very little recoil and make major pf.
edit to add they hytech is a lot cleaner and does not smoke like the lead bullets I used to use.

ATLDave said:

Both of those are heavy enough to be very efficient in making major with modest recoil. You'll likely have a softer feel from the 230's, but some people feel the slide is sluggish with that weight at ~170pf. It really is preference.

Your squadmates will hate you for shooting bare lead, though. Nobody is trying to breathe that ****, and you won't like it when shooting into the morning sun, either. Stick with the coated.

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Coated lead doesn't smoke. The lead comes from the primers. The smoke from conventional lubed lead bullets comes from the lube.

As to the OP, the cost of coating a lead bullet in Hi-Tek is so low that it doesn't even figure into my calculations.

100 gram bottle of Hi-Tek will make 500 ml of coating. It takes 10 ml to coat 5.5 lbs of bullets. That's 192 200 gr bullets.

Or 1920 bullets for the bottle. The bottle costs $10.95, or $0.0057 per bullet, or $0.057 per 100 bullets.

Accuracy wise, I can't detect a significant difference; but if there's an edge it's with the 190 grain and 200 grain swc. That bullet shoots just as well in my S&W M25 as it does in my 1911s.

either is fine

I shot uspsa/iosc for years with 200gr SWC and win231

then on the recommendation of Rob Leatham, I tried 3.9gr CLAYS & a 230gr and never looked back

For my fixed sight 1911's they both shoot more to POA with 200gr bullets, so I use those mostly.
The firmness that you hold the gun will effect the POI.