These loads are safe in all modern .45 Long Colt revolvers in good operating condition. Even nuttier than not having a "Mid-Range" load section (given that a great many people find their most enjoyable shooting of .45 Colt rounds in that nice 900 fps-1100 fps neighborhood). Jones and numbered at 345.451. No other sixgun cartridge has so many devoted followers. .44 Magnum brass is more widely available, cheaper (because it is discounted more due to higher sales volume), stronger, and lasts longer. Each manufacturer may very. These loads are intended for use only in Ruger Blackhawk and Vaquero revolvers, and the Thompson/Center Contender. All of these loads will group right at one-inch shooting from a rest at 25 yards with my Smith & Wesson Model 25-5 .45 Colt. Bad Idea! The original model Ruger Vaquero is a fixed sight variation of the Blackhawk and falls under the "Blackhawk" classification, as is the Ruger Bisley version of the Blackhawk. Accurate No. But there was no lasting harm done to the gun or me. I call it the SSK 340. The .45 Colt and single-action revolver are a powerful and useful combination. The .45s are a very versatile group of cartridges, ranging from the .45 Colt on the bottom end up to the high-velocity champ, the .460 S&W Magnum, at the top end. This was achieved with 40 grains of black powder. For the purposes of this article, by "high pressure" I mean pressures above the industry accepted SAAMI maximum pressure limit. These have been in continuous service for two decades and have loaded thousands upon thousands of heart warming .45 Colt loads. Such Cor-Bon ammunition boxes are clearly marked ".45 Colt Magnum +P." 45 long colt brass all trimmed using a old fashioned lee ball cutter with 45 long colt guide; and a Lee classic loader in 45 long colt to size, load, and form the roll crimp. I have fired .45 Colt loads with a 165-grain bullet at 650 fps. I did some reloading to test some .45 Colt loads for my Pietta revolver. The top Sierra load uses more powder but a lighter bullet, 25.0 grains of 296 behind a 240 grain bullet for 1250 fps. 45 Long Colt - Miwall Ammo Lead Flat Point WFree Can RN: 250gr: n/a: 50 $ 109.95: $2.20: MiwallCorp Both cartridges can handle the same range of bullet weights (usually from 200-300 grains in JHP hunting bullets), and the .44 Magnum's .429" bullet has better sectional density (for better penetration) in every bullet weight than the .452" bullet. Copyright 2002, 2016 by Chuck Hawks. Even Federal .45 Colt brass lasts only about half as long as magnum brass. I think its the WLP. Loads . Date: Jan 02 2013. S&W themselves have put this in writing in their advertisements, and a talk with one of their technicians will confirm it. A little simple arithmetic shows that a 25,000 cup load is slightly more than 57% above the 15,900 cup SAAMI maximum pressure for the .45 Colt cartridge. The loads in the Hornady, Sierra, and Speer manuals have been used in thousands of Ruger Blackhawk revolvers for many years without a problem, so it seems reasonable to accept that they represent a safe and practical maximum for .45 Colt cartridges to be fired only in Blackhawk revolvers and Contender pistols. The .45 Colt offers a wealth of versatility to the reloader. They are designed to handle standard pressure .45 Colt loads ONLY. I have yet to recover any bullets from whitetail when using the carbine. ", High pressure handloads for the Blackhawk and Contender pistols. The world that we hunt and shoot in is not the same as the controlled environment of a ballistics laboratory, and our Blackhawk and Contender pistols are not manufactured to the same strength and tolerances as a pressure test gun. These cases were used with standard pressure reloads only. Bull-X now has a 300 grain flat-nosed bullet available for the .45 Colt with two crimp grooves to adjust the loading to fit the length of the cylinder. The very next shot may blow their gun up! It made a heck of a bang, and sprayed my shooting hand with hot powder and bits of brass. All I know is that he handed me his new gun to shoot a cylinder load of cartridges, and the 2nd cartridge I fired split from the mouth all the way down to the rim. I have personally taken about 10 antelope and 1 mule deer with a .45 Colt. LOADS FOR COLT SINGLE ACTION ARMY AND REPLICA SINGLE ACTIONS. In my experience, Winchester magnum brass will typically go 6 to 8 reloads (using the same type of roll crimp) before developing the small case mouth cracks I saw with their .45 brass after 2 reloads. This results in a significant increase in energy, yet the loads were safe in Speer's test firearms. The Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 Magnum is the top of the line and a little bit nicer gun than a standard Blackhawk, anyway. This load will shoot lengthwise of antelope and mule deer at 100 yards. 250 grain cast is the bullet I have 600-700 fps is what I am looking for if possible. Could you even begin to imagine a reloading bench without the familiar green and orange boxes from RCBS and Lyman? I would expand upon that and say still will remain the coyote and the .45 Colt. Cowboy shooters often load down to 700 fps or so. Accurate 4100. Air temperature and density, bullets, powder lots, primers, cases, crimp pressures, powder measures, powder scales, chambers, barrels, barrel and chamber temperature, and so on are all variables that can affect pressure. Again, use only in heavy-duty sixguns! Different cartridges are designed for different purposes, and may require different safety margins. These cartridges will chamber and can be fired in any .45 Colt revolver, although they are not safe in the majority of such revolvers. The only difference now being it is used for cowboy action shooting rather than on cattle drives and shootouts on Main Street. Accurate Nitro 100 NF. Both will shoot inside three-fourth's of an inch at 25 yards from a good sixgun. For example, what if I get a can of powder that produces greater than normal pressure? These are for use only in heavy duty sixguns such as the Ruger Blackhawk or Bisley, Wesson Firearms .45 Colt, or Freedom Arms Casull. Specialty ammo products like the Garret, Buffalo Bore, and Grizzly products are great, but they're really not bringing much advantage to a 50yrd or less whitetail killing open-sighted revolver. The meplat on these .45's is so small as to be insignificant in my opinion, but in traditional trim, the .45 Colt offers a bit more bullet weight and diameter and about 100 ft/sec, assuming equal barrel lengths are being used. LOADS FOR THE .45 COLT LOADS FOR COLT SINGLE ACTION ARMY AND REPLICA SINGLE ACTIONS BULLET LOAD MV Bull-X 255 SWC 14.0 gr. These happened to be hand measured test loads, and the unexpected velocity was consistent, not caused by an inadvertent double charge or something like that. First is a 265 grain Bonded-Core Hollow Point bullet at a muzzle velocity (MV) of 1350 fps and muzzle enerby (ME) of 1073 ft. lbs. I can hit whatever I am aiming at with this load, and I've quite literally had it go through both sides of a full grown whitetail deer at 75 yards. I Need do to wrist problems a very mild 45 colt load. I was probably getting pressure well above double what it should have been. NEVER use any high pressure .45 Colt load in a S&W revolver. If I wanted a .45 Magnum I would buy a .454 Casull revolver. Stick with the major reloading manuals from bullet makers like Speer, Hornady and Sierra whose primary interest is your safety and who publish loads for specific bullets. That seemingly large safety margin is there for a reason. These include not only the Colt Single Action Army, Colt Cowboy, and the various replicas thereof, but the DA Colt Anaconda, Ruger Redhawk, aforementioned "N" frame S&W, and others. The authors of the major reloading manuals were aware that there are modern guns other than the Blackhawk and Contender that are chambered for the .45 Colt cartridge. For utility loads, loads in the 875 feet per second to 1,000 feet per second category, I find myself mostly using the 255 grain semi-wadcutter machine cast bullets from Bull-X or Oregon Trail. But what if I had been loading SAAMI maximum pressure loads? Loaded over 21.5 grains of #2400 it will do 1300 plus feet per second in the seven and one-half inch Ruger. The second high pressure Cor-Bon load is uses a 300 grain Jacketed Soft Point bullet at a MV of 1300 fps and ME of 1126 ft. lbs. Cor-Bon offers three high pressure loads in .45 Colt Caliber. They are plenty enough for the .45 Colt. The recoil from that shot felt like a high pressure load. High pressure loads in other brands or models of guns. Theres are not .454 Casull rounds, but they are way hotter than factory .45 Colt ammunition. in performance (with very hot over-pressure loads), the .44 can do the same thing at standard pressure with standard factory loads--which has got to be an advantage in anyone's book. Accurate No. These safety warnings are not without reason. Perhaps this final quote from the Speer Reloading Manual sums the whole issue up best. The heaviest practical .45 Colt cast bullet is that designed by J.D. In any event, most amateur load developers don't know that their loads are actually safe, they only know that up to the last shot they fired nothing failed. The .45lc is plenty capable out of a rifle platform to put a whitetail down and the hollow point is a better built bullet and will help if bone is encountered at all I think you will be just fine with the jacketed bullet and again just my opinion stay away from the all lead target load In recent years a couple of the smaller ammunition companies have introduced high pressure .45 Colt factory loads intended only for use in extra strong, modern guns. There is no question that a .44 Magnum can handle high pressure loads, as that is what it was designed for. 13 gives more information than the other two about the actual pressure of their high pressure .45 Colt loads. The Win 94s and Marlins in 45 long Colt can push a 330 to 340 grain cast bullet to 1600 FPS and a KS of 76 and thats no sleazebecause 40+ caliber bullets of this weight will penetrate incredible distances thru animals, with great disruptive force to I gave up on Winchester brass because the boxes I tried were so brittle that they started developing case mouth cracks (from roll crimping) after 2-3 reloads. My reloading of the .45 Colt started with the Lyman #310 Tong Tool, graduating to a Lyman All American press with All American dies in the late 1950's. The original loading was a bullet of approximately 255 grains with a muzzle velocity of somewhere around 850 to 900 fps. Other brands of bullets, even if of the same weight, must not be used with these loads as the bearing surface and hardness of the bullet have a significant effect on pressure. I get e-mail questions on the subject of high pressure loads for the .45 Colt all the time. To load or advocate loading the .45 Colt cartridge to even higher pressure would appear to be irresponsible. For use in the 16 Winchester 1894 Trapper .45 Colt, I have thus far only used relatively mild loads just to see what can be accomplished. It is superbly accurate and will often shoot well in sixguns that are cranky about shooting plain-based bullets. This flat-nosed slap-'em-down-and-stomp-on-'em heavyweight is superbly accurate over 17.0 grains of the new VhitaVhouri N110 for 1200 feet per second. I have, a .45 Long Colt case in fact. A GREAT many guys shoot the 250 grain XTP bullets with Win 296/H110, and Hornady doesn't even list a load using this powder with this extremely popular bullet. As an example, the .45 Colt with a 250-grain bullet at 800 fps will kick more than a .38 Special with a 158-grain bullet at 800 fps. The Hornady, Sierra, and Speer reloading manuals have published the latter category of .45 Colt loads longer than most. The following quote is from the section of the Speer Reloading Manual No. Some (not all) of the major reloading manuals list two categories of .45 Colt loads. The accompanying data containing the 255-grain Hornady lead FP is primarily for cowboy loads. Maybe it would have stayed together, and maybe not. I understand and accept that the pressure safety margin built into any case is there for a reason. Use the same brand of primer, brass, bullet, and powder; do everything just as they did. But what about other modern revolvers chambered for the .45 Colt cartridge? Most 250 to 255-gr. There is, of course, no such caliber. Keep in mind that we are supposed to be enjoying a recreational activity, not performing death defying stunts. group' AA' loading manual #1 shows a starting load of 11.3 grs' of AA#5 giving a 210 gr' lswc in the .41 mag 1269 fps; and 10.4 gr's of AA#5 giving 1163 fps for a starting load with an XTP bullet of 210 gr's. All guns are different, and what is "safe" in one gun may be unsafe in another. But no exception is made for any of these guns, not even the excellent Anaconda and Redhawk. Clearly, FOR BLACKHAWK AND CONTENDER ONLY means just that! Perhaps it can be done, but to me it seems analogous to driving a sports car at 150 miles per hour on bald tires. The .45 Colt is now approaching its one hundred and twenty-fifth birthday and is the oldest living centerfire sixgun cartridge. It may also prove to be the best choice for those who prefer to use a .45 Colt revolver for personal protection. At first I thought the gun had blown up. I disagree with most of Mr. Linebaugh's assertions about very high pressure .45 Colt loads and the strength of the .45 Colt case in general, but I do agree with him about the superiority of Federal .45 Colt brass. Since doing the first Taffin Tests on the .45 Colt over six years ago, we have seen the disappearance of the Smith & Wesson Model 25-5 in .45 Colt, but the Colt Single Action Army is back once again and doing well; the Colt Anaconda is the first double action .45 from Colt in over fifty years; Ruger has introduced the Vaquero in both blue and stainless with the first chamberings in .45 Colt; Smith has come back with a clone of the 1988 five-inch heavy barreled stainless .45 ACP, this time in .45 Colt; and both Cimarron and EMF are importing totally upgraded single action replicas that are dead-ringers for the 19th Century Colt Peacemakers with the premier chambering being in, what else, the .45 Colt. What if I hit a bump, which momentarily increases pressure? Some of these high pressure .45 Colt loads are way beyond the pressure of proof loads, and while a good gun can survive a cylinder load of proof loads, it was not built to withstand a continuous diet of such loads. The reloading manuals that list these restricted loads are pretty coy about the actual pressures involved in such loads. 2. As a result I threw away all of my Winchester .45 Colt brass. Will they ? The bulk of my heavyweight bullet shooting is with BRP's 300 grain flat-nosed gas checked .45 bullet. And the hardness of a bullet's jacket and core influences pressure. "The loads Speer developed (for the .45LC Blackhawk and Contender) are roughly halfway between standard .45 Colt and .44 Magnum pressures. This load is NOT intended for handguns such as older Smith & Wesson, Colt Single Action Army, or the Colt clones imported single action revolvers. NEI's 310 and 325 grain semi-wadcutter Keith bullets are excellent designs as is LBT's 300 LFN and all shoot superbly at 1100 to 1200 feet per second. She uses a 4 3/4" Seville and the handload is a 260 Keith cast at 900 fps. If you need more power than this, buy a .44 Magnum or a .454 Casull!". Its cylinder was not bulged or damaged in any way. This is not hypothetical, as I have actually had it happen. Developed as a joint venture between Colt Firearms and the Union Metallic Cartridge Company, the .45 Colt was introduced in the Colt Single Action Armywhich would be known as the Peacemaker of Western fame. That powder was withdrawn from the market, by the way. Perhaps the best known of these companies is Cor-Bon. The .44 Magnum and .454 Casull as alternatives to the .45 Colt. Some people have tried to load the .45 Colt to levels of the .44 Magnum. But they do not speak well for the durability of .45 Colt brass compared to magnum brass. It worked well on Ohio white tailed deer. Accurate No. For those that cast their own, RCBS has a fairly new mold, #45-300 SWC that has proven to be superbly accurate with 21.0-22.0 grains of H110 for 1100 to 1200 feet per second muzzle velocity. They are not to be used in any other make or model of firearm! AND SIMILAR SIZED SIXGUNS. In addition, its jacketed FTX bullet eliminates barrel leading issues. In 1875, it became the standard issue for the U.S. Army, and remained so until replaced by the .38 Long Colt in 1892, though it wouldnt be long until the Army adopted yet another .45 caliber pistol cartridge, but you know all a I've got a load for my 5-1/2" Blackhawk that does 1300fps with a hardcast 250 in 45Colt but, you can't use it in a S&W. This seems like a pretty stiff load to me; the difference in velocity is probably more attributable to differences between chronographs than pressure. And this is a quote from the Speer Reloading Manual. I stick to Colt or Ruger revolvers for my personal use. The load basically acts like a grenade going off deep inside their torso. The latest heavyweight bullet available to those that cast their own is Lyman's #452651, a 325 grain round-nosed bullet that should penetrate from here to breakfast and groups at one-inch with 19.5 grains of H110 for 1100 feet per second. Lachmiller's 255 grain conical bullet is a deadringer for the original and using 40.0 grains of Goex FFFg blackpowder ignited by a CCI #350 Magnum pistol primer with it quickly showed me why the old .45 Colt had such a great reputation.
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