JohnH
02-14-2015, 11:20 PM
I am no great fan of Lee products, lets call it a love hate relationship. Nothing they make doesn't have the "it works but..." syndrome. The 452-2R-TL falls directly into this category. Be it the mold; every mold is a law unto itself, but somehow Lee carries this problem to a level all its own, or the boolit dimensions I'm always somewhat the near side of pleased with the products. So it pains me to admit that over some 30 years of casting the single best all around 45 caliber boolit I've ever used is the 45-2R-TL. It is a ridiculous boolit. There is simply not enough driving band area to make the boolit shoot as well as it does. It's ugly. It's so plain vanilla, ice cream in the grocery store laughs at it. Any other boolit with so little driving band area combined with so little lube reservoir should lead like the dickens and keyhole every third shot. But no.
Not only does this boolit shoot well, I've had three different copies of the mold and every one dropped uniform boolits, and they always shot well from whatever I fired them from, be it Rock Island 1911's, Taurus, Ruger, Kimber, Springfield; be it Cimarron Arms SSA, Ruger Blackhawks or Redhawks, the boolit shoots all out of preportion to its humble if unappealing appearance.
I am currently shooting boolits from two molds, not separating the boolits, just lump 'em together in a plastic container, dribble a tad of 45-45-10, shake, pour out and let 'em dry. No sizing or nuthin. Load and shoot. From an RIA 1911 GI model I get palm sized groups at 15 yards so long as I care to shoot (That's as good as these old eyes do with iron sights) and with 45 Colt Blackhawk I get palm sized groups at 35 yards so long as I care to shoot (The revolter is sighted with a Bushnell red dot) 8" plates at 50 yards are monotonous. And this is the results I've had from this boolit for some 15 years. I've tried at least a half dozen other different designs and have simply never gotten the reliable accuracy from them as I get from this boolit. And it will feed from a 1911, it simply doesn't hiccup.
So I'm done. This is my go to boolit for 45 caliber handguns. It ain't sexy, folk at the gun range don't ask about it, I'd as soon pull up to the car hop in a box stock Falcon as have to tell someone what this boolit is. But like that old Falcon, it performs. Day in, day out, rain, shine, sleet it performs. Doesn't care about powder either, anything that will make 750-800 fps the gun is happy with, the boolit will be happy with. So if you're looking for a good 45 boolit and don't know where to start (there are a LOT of choices) the Lee 45-2R-TL is an excellent starting point.
Not only does this boolit shoot well, I've had three different copies of the mold and every one dropped uniform boolits, and they always shot well from whatever I fired them from, be it Rock Island 1911's, Taurus, Ruger, Kimber, Springfield; be it Cimarron Arms SSA, Ruger Blackhawks or Redhawks, the boolit shoots all out of preportion to its humble if unappealing appearance.
I am currently shooting boolits from two molds, not separating the boolits, just lump 'em together in a plastic container, dribble a tad of 45-45-10, shake, pour out and let 'em dry. No sizing or nuthin. Load and shoot. From an RIA 1911 GI model I get palm sized groups at 15 yards so long as I care to shoot (That's as good as these old eyes do with iron sights) and with 45 Colt Blackhawk I get palm sized groups at 35 yards so long as I care to shoot (The revolter is sighted with a Bushnell red dot) 8" plates at 50 yards are monotonous. And this is the results I've had from this boolit for some 15 years. I've tried at least a half dozen other different designs and have simply never gotten the reliable accuracy from them as I get from this boolit. And it will feed from a 1911, it simply doesn't hiccup.
So I'm done. This is my go to boolit for 45 caliber handguns. It ain't sexy, folk at the gun range don't ask about it, I'd as soon pull up to the car hop in a box stock Falcon as have to tell someone what this boolit is. But like that old Falcon, it performs. Day in, day out, rain, shine, sleet it performs. Doesn't care about powder either, anything that will make 750-800 fps the gun is happy with, the boolit will be happy with. So if you're looking for a good 45 boolit and don't know where to start (there are a LOT of choices) the Lee 45-2R-TL is an excellent starting point.