Your slowest 45 colt with jacketed bullet powder?

[flomofo]

I have a 25-5 I am Loading rounds for with 250 nosler jhp's.

What's the powder you guys use for the lowest recoil with jacketed bullets?

I'm trying some trailboss and some bullseye or h110 and looking to try one more powder that will be as soft shooting as possible with these bullets since the h110 will be hotter and the trailboss is just an experiment at this point.

 

[Walkalong]

AA #2. Very position insensitive in .45 Colt. Burns clean and gives good numbers even loading soft loads with plated bullets. Most powders are position sensitive, especially downloaded. AA #2 is one of the best powders I have tried looking for one that gives almost the same numbers powder forward as it does powder back.

Trail Boss should work well too, but I haven't experimented with it as much in .45 Colt yet. Preliminary results look promising as far as accuracy, but it doesn't seal the chamber as well and soots up the brass pretty good.

 

[loadedround]

You can also use the old excellent standby powder for the 45 Colt...Unique.

 

[Walkalong]

Unique is excellent for full power .45 Colt loads.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

I use W231/HP-38. I think Unique is too slow a powder if you want to make up light loads.

 

[rcmodel]

Maybe an dumb question?

But if you want the lightest load possible with no recoil, why are you using expensive 250 grain Nosler JHP bullets? They won't expand at all at low velocity, and will stick in the bore if driven too slow.

What you want to do is an ideal place to use cheap cast lead bullets and fast powder to "bump" them out of the barrel.

With no risk of a stuck bullet like with the JHP's..

rc

 

[Walkalong]

Or at least the cheaper plated bullets with a light taper crimp. Those Noslers are mighty nice for just light plinking loads.

Good point rc

 

[mgkdrgn]

I don't think you are going to be happy with the results you will get, accuracy wise, from trying to shoot a JHP or plated bullet as a "light" load. They are not going to get 'hit' hard enough to expand into the rifling and will be all over the place.

I tried the same load on some plateded that I used on lead (gave me 800- 900 fps) and they not only NOT on the paper, they were not even on the backing board. At the advice of the bullet vendor, pushing them to twice that velocity resolved the problem.

 

[Walkalong]

For my really light load in .45 Colt I shoot 250/255 Gr plated bullets at 600ish FPS with excellent accuracy. I have shot jacketed bullets in .38 Spl at very low velocities working up light loads, and they shoot very well also.

Besides, they don't have to expand at all for the rifling to cut into them.

Was your barrel clear of leading when trying those plated bullets at low velocities?