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Thread: What's your favorite boolit in 45 colt?

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    454424+8gr unique

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    Currently running the NOE/Ranch Dog TL-230-RF in my 4.25" Redhawk. I launched that boolit as a group buy for .45 Auto - in the middle of which, a clever participant said "why don't you change the front TL groove into a crimper. I've got it moving about 1025 fps out of .45 Colt cases as kind of a gap-bridger between hot Auto and the Ruger/Casull Only loads that I really don't enjoy.
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    I like the Mihec 308 454 with all pin options. Wish I still had pix of carnage done to praire dogs and other varmints with it. Great deer boolit! Long enough to be Ruger big frame only.

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    The mihec 308 grain is a fantastic bullet. Especially with the Penta nose.

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    The accurate bullets Outpost75 showed look great but I have not found anything to outshoot my old Ly454424. I have seen 3 different cherries used in the ones I have gone through and I am sure there are more variants out there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by osteodoc08 View Post
    This here.

    Same here. It and the Mihec twin.

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    Another vote for the 308 454. I don’t have the pins but we have shot them beyond 1000 yards and they will outshoot me

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    MP-270-SAA for hunting and 454190 for everything else. Have went to HS-6 for the 454190 and still H110 for the big, flat, fat boolit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 9.3X62AL View Post
    I am coming to the belief that a 250-260 grain bullet of .45" diameter running near 1000 FPS is a very powerful and effective field tool.
    It is indeed!

    Quote Originally Posted by Butler Ford View Post
    After trying a RCBS 45-270 SAA, other moulds just sit in the storage box.
    Yep.

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    I like the NOE 454-290-rf rg shoot as a cup or hollow point in my Blackhawk henry BBS and my super redhawk 454 works good in all them

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    RCBS 255--.454 ....that one will probably always be my favorite. Everyone remembers their first!!!!!!!!

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    if I had to pick only one id take the rcbs swcgc 300. Never found a gun that didn't shoot that bullet extremely well.

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    I have several of the previously mentioned molds. My BH really likes the 45-270 saa too. I am looking forward to the Mihec group buy (rf/lfp) with a cup point for deer hunting. That said, I am sure a 45-270 saa above 1000fps will be more than adequate!

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    Mihec 270SAA penta hp or Dry Creek 265gr. from my stash....both are accurate from a Uberti Birdshead at 25yds. which surprised me from the short barrel.

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    I like the 300gr Lee but have started casting the 350/325gr NOE boolit in 45 Colt and 460 S&W.

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    Lyman's 454190 (hope I got the mold number right)...I cast mine from 1:3 (Pb/WW) with just a pinch of tin for mold fill out. I air cool and get ~2" gps at 25 yds from both a 7-1/2" bbl'd Colt SAA and a New Vaquero with a 4-5/8" bbl. Both guns are more accurate than I can hold (what a surprise eh?). Eight grains of Unique and a stout crimp do the deed when I do I my part.

    It's a big slug, and that semi-pointed look has meant business for well over a hundred years.

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    RCBS 45-255-SWC. Ruger New Vaqueros, 4 5/8 and 7 1/2" barrels.

    Kills whitetail easily, pass through shoulder shots.
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    My bore rider design. Maybe might hollow point it.

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    I only hunt cowboy shooting targets

    200 gr over Red dot

    and 250 gr over Red Dot in Marlin. do this to keep from having blowback
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    LBT 300 gr. LFN. It is the same boolit that I shoot in my FA Casull.
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Abbreviations used in Reloading

BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
C Compressed Charge PR Primer SPCL Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP Hollow Point PSPCL Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" C.O.L. Cartridge Overall Length
PSP Pointed Soft Point Spz Spitzer Point SBT Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN Lead Round Nose LWC Lead Wad Cutter LSWC Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC Gas Check