StrikeEagle
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Hello, Friends
I've been reloading since 1973 (I think) and I reload perhaps 20 different calibers. I ALWAYS look up the data before I set up to reload... except is ONE case. This is when I use the very very best load I have ever found for any caliber. It's emblazoned forever on my brain:
45 Colt, 250ish Cast Bullet, and 6 grains of Red Dot
This load is an incredible joy to shoot. It's a medium load, and I fire it out of a Colt SAA, 5.5 inch, second gen revolver. It's heavy enough to give me a good feeling of a powerful gun going off in my hand, but it's by no means 'stiff' or overpowering. It's the kind of warm friend you can hang out with for a long day at the range. It's not timid, but nor is it bossy. It's JUST RIGHT.
But the main attraction of this load for me is the REMARKABLE accuracy. If space aliens captured me and I was forced to shoot a match with the top alien pistolero, with the entire Planet Earth as the stakes... I would pick this gun and this load.
I hear about Unique as being the 'powder of choice' for .45 Colt... I've tried it. It's 'ok'. But if you ever want to make your .45 Colt stand up and SING... please do try this recipe. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Do any of you have ONE load that stands out to you as being head and shoulders above everything else in ANY caliber?
best,
StikeEagle
Exodus 22:2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
I've been reloading since 1973 (I think) and I reload perhaps 20 different calibers. I ALWAYS look up the data before I set up to reload... except is ONE case. This is when I use the very very best load I have ever found for any caliber. It's emblazoned forever on my brain:
45 Colt, 250ish Cast Bullet, and 6 grains of Red Dot
This load is an incredible joy to shoot. It's a medium load, and I fire it out of a Colt SAA, 5.5 inch, second gen revolver. It's heavy enough to give me a good feeling of a powerful gun going off in my hand, but it's by no means 'stiff' or overpowering. It's the kind of warm friend you can hang out with for a long day at the range. It's not timid, but nor is it bossy. It's JUST RIGHT.
But the main attraction of this load for me is the REMARKABLE accuracy. If space aliens captured me and I was forced to shoot a match with the top alien pistolero, with the entire Planet Earth as the stakes... I would pick this gun and this load.
I hear about Unique as being the 'powder of choice' for .45 Colt... I've tried it. It's 'ok'. But if you ever want to make your .45 Colt stand up and SING... please do try this recipe. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Do any of you have ONE load that stands out to you as being head and shoulders above everything else in ANY caliber?
best,
StikeEagle
Exodus 22:2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.