My favorite cowboy load for 45 Colt is 5.5gr of trail boss with 250 or 255gr cast bullets.
If any of you load light 45 Colt loads, what are your favorites?
JTD
Printable View
My favorite cowboy load for 45 Colt is 5.5gr of trail boss with 250 or 255gr cast bullets.
If any of you load light 45 Colt loads, what are your favorites?
JTD
230gr cast or plated bullets with 6.0gr Trail Boss.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffreyDeGraff
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk
9.5gr of 231 with a 230gr fmj. For hunting I like a 300gr soft tip with 23gr of H110. Its a beast with that load but it'll set a deer or hog on its ass quick. Especially out of my rifle.
Sent from my motorola edge plus using Tapatalk
I’m going to try a 230 plated with 8gr uniqueQuote:
Originally Posted by muforester
JTD
I never thought about using 231. I may have to investigate that.Quote:
Originally Posted by EUDE75
JTD
That should be a good one too. That load I suggested, is the very first load I ever put together 11+ years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffreyDeGraff
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk
My blackhawk and marlin rifle love it and its cleaner burning than the unique I use to use. I've been using 231 for over 15 years nowQuote:
Originally Posted by JeffreyDeGraff
Sent from my motorola edge plus using Tapatalk
9.5gr of 231 is about 2.0gr over max for old pistols and clones, so probably should only be used in smiths and rugers. I may try 7.3gr if 231, so it will be able to be shot in all of my 45 colts.Quote:
Originally Posted by EUDE75
JTD
You're right. Mine are rugers so it'll handle a little more. I load out of the old Thompson contender section of my manual.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffreyDeGraff
Sent from my motorola edge plus using Tapatalk
I made up some rounds last night with 8.0gr unique and 230gr Rainier HP.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...4b9081ed0b.jpg
I’m going to try them in my judge, snakeslayer and super Blackhawk.
JTD
Is 21gr. of H110 under a 325gc light?Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffreyDeGraff
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk
For some people, I reckon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oddduck
JTD
Looking good! You gotta let us know how they do. I'm kinda wishing the 45 Colt thing hadn't missed me the way it did. I had a Ruger convertible in my hand one afternoon, went back to buy it a few hours later . . . yeah, you know it was gone. Maybe next time.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffreyDeGraff
Gonna have to try that tail boss sometime, I got it might as well use it
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-T337A using Tapatalk
No. I'd say that's pretty heavy. A Thompson, A River or a rifle could probably handle it but most other brand pistols most likely won't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oddduck
Sent from my motorola edge plus using Tapatalk
I shoot that in my new model Blackhawk, my wrist don't like it but man its got some thump when it gets thereQuote:
Originally Posted by EUDE75
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-T337A using Tapatalk
I bet so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oddduck
Sent from my motorola edge plus using Tapatalk
This is my exact light load with a 200 grain cast RNFP bullet.Attachment 1717Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffreyDeGraff
Great shooting load!Quote:
Originally Posted by TommyT
JTD
I loaded a few 8 gr Unique with a Lee 452-200 but the 45-200 RCBS shot better in a 7.5" Ruger .
Looks like I never followed up with my 8.0gr unique with the 230gr rainier HP. I tried it in my bond arms derringer, Taurus judge 2.5” barrel, cimarron peacemaker, and Ruger SBH. It shot great out of all 4. I was impressed. The best part was that it is absolutely the most accurate 45 colt load I’ve ever shot out of the derringer.
JTD
I use 250 gr cast lead bullets and 5.5 gr of Trail Boss.
Ive used that same exact load for many years. Very accurate and low recoil.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chief Ten Beers
JTD
I started with 5.8 grs of Trail Boss, then I backed down to 5.5 grs.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffreyDeGraff
5.5gr is definitely the sweet spot for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chief Ten Beers
JTD
What are you shooting out of? I shoot mine out of SAA's.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffreyDeGraff
I have a Super Blackhawk and a Cimarron Arms SAA clone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chief Ten Beers
JTD
I have three Uberti SAA clones.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffreyDeGraff
This is mine.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...396ebf04a7.jpg
JTD
Nice!
This is my Uberti Remington, the other two are Colt models. I don't have any pictures of them yet. One of them has an extra cylinder for .45 ACP.
Attachment 1832
Great caliber, great history. Thank you both for sharing something that I know very little about.
Flyer .
Some tidbits amassed from many forums and probably weeks of reading over the last 30 years .
The 45 Colts most likely was saddled with Long Colts because it was commonly used to separate it from the shorter 45 S&W "Schofield" . Briefly something like 1887-89' the Army also had a cartridge intended to cure the supply chain difficulty of the 45 S&W's larger rim dia in the SAA Colts . It was the correct length for the S&W Schofield pistol with the smaller dia rim for the SAA Colts and allowed enough purchase for the ejector to function in the S&W. It was effectively a Short Colts .
Most users wanted the Longer Colts cartridge .
So in the company of CASS &SASS as well as collectors you'll get beat up if you call it a 45 Long Colts . It doesn't end there though they will also argue about the Colts vs Colt's vs Colt . In my mind since Mom's 1917 Colts built on a 1905 frame is plainly marked Colts manufacturing I would have to draw the conclusion that Sam Colt wanted it to be Colts' possession plural not Colt's possession singular . This is made more likely by the lingering proper English and the common teaching of Latin in Highschool . It then became just Colts plural as the ' was dropped because print cost per letter or character . That happened long before the 1873 SAA probably closer to 1848 .
Now I've shared my otherwise useless information .
I did a little playing around recently with my Super Blackhawk 45 Colt. I have a mess of Xtreme 255gr FN plated bullets I got from Wes. 8.6 Gr of unique with those Xtremes is a beautiful combination out of that Ruger.
JTD
when u said light loads my thinking was my cowboy action loads. Ya'lls def. of light is a bit different than mine.
200 grain cast bullet over about 6 grains Trail Boss...sadly gone for now.....you can go to 5.5 but it sux, 6 grains ignites better,and I like that I can see them large grains in that large case while setting the bullet in place.
..most of u won't like this load it smokes the cases but...it's light !!
mike cox
My 5.5gr trailboss with 250gr cast load is right on par with your favorite cowboy loadQuote:
Originally Posted by throckmorton
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Not really Colts I've been dabbling in 45 S&W . 5.5 Unique or 6 Herco under a 451-228 NEI SWC.
I wish I still had my Herco, I really like that powderQuote:
Originally Posted by Harter
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk