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Posted: 2/9/2010 2:04:14 PM EDT
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Just what it says, lets hear what your using, light to OMG
Looking to try out some loads on the heavier side. Powders I have are Accurate #5, 231, Unique, Clays, and Bullseye, and Bluedot SO what you loading and how is it working. |
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Well, went out and checked some loads I worked up today. Temp about 70deg
DISCLAIMER.... A LOT OF THESE LOADS INCLUDE MAXIMUM LOADS AND SHOULD BE WORKED UP TO. USE ONLY AS DATA INFO. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE TO SHOOTER AND OR FIREARM. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK 
All were shot out of Rons GasUpper .45 All used the standard buffer except the 231 I tested and that I used the light buffer. Brass was range brass and col was different due to different makers of brass. Winchester primers used and Roze dist 230 fmj bullets used. Readings were taken from Chrony at a distance of 10ft. All fed great. Only malfunctions were with 231 powder (very light loads) which were too light for even the no weight buffer so I excluded them unless you really want the readings. Bullet wt. Powder wt. Velocity 230fmj 7.9g AA5 830-845fps Accurate #5 230 fmj 8.1g AA5 852-871fps 230fmj 8.3g AA5 909-931fps 230 fmj 8.7g AA5 960-1001fps 230fmj 9.4g BD 835fps Blue Dot Powder 230fmj 9.6g BD 919-933fps 230fmj 9.8g BD 960-966fps 230fmj 10g BD 983fps 230fmj 10.2g BD 994-1011fps 230fmj 6.0g Unique 870-880fps Unique Powder 230fmj 6.2g Unique 886-912fps 230fmj 6.4g Unique 919-924fps 230fmj 6.6g Unique 940-959fps 230fmj 6.8g Unique 980-1031fps The best powder of these as far as ejection and hard hitting were BlueDot @ 6.8g Really worked great. The down side is BlueDot is kind of a pain on a Dillon 550 and when loading near max charges you can have .4g variances so once I got near the max charge I had to weigh each charge to make sure it was right. I really liked the way AA5 metered and was pretty consistant in velocities. I will use this one also Probably the 8.5-8.7g load. The winner over all as the easiest of weighing out and consistancy and also shot really nice plus is probably the cheapest and easiest to find (here anyway) I will have to go with Unique. 6.6-6.8g shot really nice. 6.0-6.2 was like shooting WWB .45 Now something else. I also ran some out of my Colt S80 5in. and the velocities were pretty much the same. I thought they would be a big increase in velocity from 5-19in of barrel but I tried it with several different loads and there were no big changes. All were less than 50fps. Any way was a good excuse to get out and enjoy the weather and shoot some steel before it exceeds the century mark in temps. http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/7430/1000387edited1.jpg http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/641/1000392edited1.jpg |
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