.45 WST Speer 200gn Load test Update!

GW Staar said:
Gorgeous! Once had a Colt 70 series Gold Cup. but it was a safe queen, cuz I thought it too valuable to shoot.......so I sold it and bought a Kimber Target 2. But I didn't like the cheap black rubber grips....the G.C. was blued with walnut checkered grips

I found some Rosewood grips for sale so I decided to buy them. So that's the extent of my "custom" work! :) Love the results though.
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No checkering tho.......still like it. I like your sights! May have to look for some! Checkering looks hard.... This one is for my bedside safe, except when I take it to the range to practice with.
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3D print some Checkering!!! 😊
 
Mark_Mark said:
eye ball, then measure

1.195 to 1.250. I think my seating stem is made for SWC. It has a cup style profile
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Yea, so is mine. It does throw the seat depth off on cast bullets, sometimes.

If you are chrono'ing those loads, you will probably have a fairly large SD... which may mean something, or not... accuracy is accuracy. :)
 
Charlie98 said:
Yea, so is mine. It does throw the seat depth off on cast bullets, sometimes.

If you are chrono'ing those loads, you will probably have a fairly large SD... which may mean something, or not... accuracy is accuracy. :)
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I have a plan… eventually, I’ll measure each bullet and match them with other bullets. That should take care of the SD issues
 
Mark_Mark said:
I have a plan… eventually, I’ll measure each bullet and match them with other bullets. That should take care of the SD issues
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I got a wild hair up my nose a couple of months after learning to reload, and sat down with 1K Hornady 230gr fmj's with the intention of weight sorting them. After sorting about 750 I had my fill of that. Then I loaded them as carefully and precisely as I could using each weight, 229.9gr, 230.0gr, etc....

I will say that I was severely disappointed in my results. Accuracy was no different than previously loaded rounds with unsorted bullets. I didn't have a chrono so can't speak to ES or SD.

I still have a bunch of those weight sorted bullets in labeled baggies waiting to be loaded. I laugh at myself every time I look at them for the time I wasted that night, and think someday I will finish loading them up.

So I would say, sort enough to do a reasonable test, maybe ten of each weight, and see for yourself. Your results may be very different from mine.

chris
 
I was at the range a while back, and a guy had a Labradar set up. He was kind enough to let me shoot some of my 185gr coated swc's and get some numbers. I shot about ten rounds and thanked him, I didn't want to take up his time since he was working up a load for competition.

Of the rounds I shot, one was around 790 fps, the rest were between 830~860 fps. Interesting stuff.

chris
 
ballman6711 said:
I was at the range a while back, and a guy had a Labradar set up. He was kind enough to let me shoot some of my 185gr coated swc's and get some numbers. I shot about ten rounds and thanked him, I didn't want to take up his time since he was working up a load for competition.

Of the rounds I shot, one was around 790 fps, the rest were between 830~860 fps. Interesting stuff.

chris
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Let’s see how these do, then we can work it together! We can call it OT load test!

Now I need to figure out why my Roberts D gun has a extractor problem, it’s not grabbing the case rim
 
Mark_Mark said:
Let’s see how these do, then we can work it together! We can call it OT load test!

Now I need to figure out why my Roberts D gun has a extractor problem, it’s not grabbing the case rim
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I have had to replace the extractor in my Thompson/Auto-Ordnance twice in the last 20 years. That’s a lot for a 1911A1. After some investigation I determined it was the case rims. I use a lot of mixed brass of unknown origin and a lot of times the rims are skewed or have bends in them. That puts uneven pressure on the extractor.

If they’re just loose I bend them a little to tighten them up but once they get a chip in the tooth they’re done. I only put maybe a thousand rounds tops through that gun in a year so it’s not like it sees a lot of use but that’s the gun that gets all the hot caliente loads and mixed garbage brass.
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
I have had to replace the extractor in my Thompson/Auto-Ordnance twice in the last 20 years. That’s a lot for a 1911A1. After some investigation I determined it was the case rims. I use a lot of mixed brass of unknown origin and a lot of times the rims are skewed or have bends in them. That puts uneven pressure on the extractor.

If they’re just loose I bend them a little to tighten them up but once they get a chip in the tooth they’re done. I only put maybe a thousand rounds tops through that gun in a year so it’s not like it sees a lot of use but that’s the gun that gets all the hot caliente loads and mixed garbage brass.
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I’ll pull out the extractor later tonight. I tried 5 different ammo profile and same thing. So! RD might still be the SWC target gun!

1911… If everything goes good LOVE
1911… When things getS funky HATE
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
I have had to replace the extractor in my Thompson/Auto-Ordnance twice in the last 20 years. That’s a lot for a 1911A1. After some investigation I determined it was the case rims. I use a lot of mixed brass of unknown origin and a lot of times the rims are skewed or have bends in them. That puts uneven pressure on the extractor.

If they’re just loose I bend them a little to tighten them up but once they get a chip in the tooth they’re done. I only put maybe a thousand rounds tops through that gun in a year so it’s not like it sees a lot of use but that’s the gun that gets all the hot caliente loads and mixed garbage brass.
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That extract was completely gunked up! WOW! looks like dried Cosmoline

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after testing the extract with know good 1911. It’s too tight, I’ll loosen it tonight. This gun is definitely not broken in. But with a good slingshot it loaded the SWC. Just a little pressure off and it should be good… I think
 
Mark_Mark said:
The T-Sauce is $300 and Dremel bits were like $5. It’s my test gun. The Night Hawk is a good target gun but that’s just going to be man Jewelry. The Robert Defense was going to be my SWC target gun… But it won’t feed SWC, need to find a roll for that gun.

So, I need a 45 Target Gun. Gold Cup is calling me! “Please shoot me Mark”
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Try a different SWC. My guns feed the H&G #68 style SWC (Lee version) from either a CMC (Chip McCormick) or Wilson magazine like tap-water. They do need to be seated near flush with the leading edge of the bearing surface to fully chamber due to short chambers.
 
GooseGestapo said:
Try a different SWC. My guns feed the H&G #68 style SWC (Lee version) from either a CMC (Chip McCormick) or Wilson magazine like tap-water. They do need to be seated near flush with the leading edge of the bearing surface to fully chamber due to short chambers.
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I’m still trying to figure out what a, “T-sauce dremal,” is. Tartar sauce??? I don’t speak Seattle Hipster. 🤪
 
GooseGestapo said:
Try a different SWC. My guns feed the H&G #68 style SWC (Lee version) from either a CMC (Chip McCormick) or Wilson magazine like tap-water. They do need to be seated near flush with the leading edge of the bearing surface to fully chamber due to short chambers.
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the 1911 is interesting, 100+ years of evolution! Combos of Mags + Ammo Profiles + Springs + Powder

LOVE IT
 
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