45 Colt by gawd....

[runfiverun]

the 2400 will clean up when you get to 19grs.
I needed a magnum primer at 18 or below but it wasn't compatible to good groups.
many of us shoot 19.3grs of 2400 under a 250-255 plain base.

I generally shoot 8.5 or 9.3 grs of unique it just seems to work as intended without any drama, and it saves the 2400 for rifle loading.

[hc18flyer]

What about velocity at 19.3 Aliant 2400? I shot some 45-270saa's at 19 grains, they were a handful. Guess I will try some of my NOE 255rfp's and 19 grains of 2400? Also working with some Win 540/HS6 . hc18flyer

[lar45]

I'm loading 22gns of Herc 2400 with the Hunter Supply 275LFN and a Win LP primer. It gives me 1184fps from a 5.5" Bisley and 1587fps from a 24" Rossi M92.
The lighter charges gave me some pretty erratic velocities in excess of 100fps depending on where the powder was in the case, but at 22gns it gave consistent velocities.

[Whiterabbit]

I too have a strong Ruger in 45 colt with 3.5” barrel. But in a large frame Vaquero, I had to customize it myself to get the features I wanted.



The load it likes is 23 grains of H110 under a 300 grain bullet, and it is all the fun I can stand, the recoil is just brutal. And you are right, the short sight radius makes it hard to shoot on target past 15 yards, at least for my eyes. I’m gonna try an light 45 cal (preferrably dewc) to get the shortest possible bullet length and see how much I can back off on velocity to find a nice comfortable 45 +p+ that doesn’t recoil like my 460 s&w.

Anyways, I just posted to tell you the ballpark I suggest for H110 if you are running bullets 250-300 grains, if you want to get the most out of that 3.5 incher. Not much fun to shoot tho

[Whiterabbit]

BTW, I’m taking your TB load . Think it’ll work with the lee 255 bullet? Its a WFN, not a SWC.

Holster I’m liking is the Simply Rugged Sourdough Pancake. Got it with border and fishscale atamping, I like it lots.

[sharps4590]

Good ol' 45 Colt. It just keeps going on about it's business of getting the job done without any extraneous BS. It's been my favorite big bore revolver cartridge for 30+ years and I doubt things will change.

[bisleyfan41]

I know it's a bunch of what-ifs, but what if back in the day 'ol Elmer had solid head 45 Colt cases and a Ruger Blackhawk? Elmer started with the Colt in a SAA and old balloon head cases, neither of which agreed with his stiff loads. So he went to the 44 special to hot rod and the rest is history. But if he had a Blackhawk, 2400, and solid head cases there very well might not be a 44 mag, 41 mag, or even 357 for that matter. The 45 Colt does everything all these do and so much more. It simply amazes me that a cartridge developed in 1873 is as modern and useful today as any handgun cartridge can be for just about any task and frankly can make all the late-comers useless. JMHO