Casting for 45 Colt

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I'm planning on getting a Henry 45 Colt and casting bullets for it.Does anybody know what the bore dia. runs on these rifles and what bullet mould you suggest for casing for them ? All I know is Henry states not to go over a bullet that weighs more then 270 grs.

[Yodogsandman]

Even bores made by the same manufacturer and of the same model may have differences in bore diameter. Better to wait until you can slug it yourself to be sure.

[JimA]

I never slugged mine but both the brass Big Boy and the steel Big Boy shoot fine without leading with my .452 sized boolits. My Big Boy steel model has a longer chamber than the brass one and will cycle and shoot my Lee C452-300-RF great. The brass one gets 250 -265 grain boolits.

[bangerjim]

I shoot .452 boolits in ALL my revolvers and lever guns (with powder coating) and never have any leading. Or grease smoke. Or sticky greasy boolits.

I cast & coat 160-300gn 45's.

banger

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I never slugged mine but both the brass Big Boy and the steel Big Boy shoot fine without leading with my .452 sized boolits. My Big Boy steel model has a longer chamber than the brass one and will cycle and shoot my Lee C452-300-RF great. The brass one gets 250 -265 grain boolits.

I find that interesting that the chamber in your steel is longer.Now I am thinking what customer service said about only using no heavier then 270 gr. bullets only appied to the brass receiver Henry.Maybe they did a change to the BBS,which would be a good thing.

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Even bores made by the same manufacturer and of the same model may have differences in bore diameter. Better to wait until you can slug it yourself to be sure.
You are correct in that I should wait until I get the rifle and slug the bore.I am preparing myself since I may have already made a bad choice in buying a rifle.I bought a Remlin in 44 mag but haven't even shot it yet as I am now finding out that the 44 mag in the 1894 is not very accurate and guys are chasing their tails trying to find a bullet that works .I guess the 1 in 38 twist rate is to slow and the bore dia.is larger then it is in revolvers which means it might be cheaper for me to shoot the dreaded "J" bullet instead of a beautiful cast bullet.Remington isn't putting out any 1894's in 45 Colt this year from what the dealer tells me so that is why I am thinking about buying a Henry to cover my buyer's remorse.

[William Yanda]

I shoot .452 boolits in ALL my revolvers and lever guns (with powder coating) and never have any leading. Or grease smoke. Or sticky greasy boolits.

I cast & coat 160-300gn 45's.

banger
Sir, that borders on bragging. You're going to make the rest of us feel bad. (end purple font)

[drklynoon]

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The one piece of advice I have is that a keith style SWC will not feed in my Henry BB unless I deep seat it past the crimp groove. I also size my bullets to .452 but have not slugged the barrel. No leading problems yet. I am saving nickels to get a RFN for it.

[osteodoc08]

I've always enjoyed the 45-270-SAA style mold and the NOE 454255 RF mold. I use these 2 for most of my plinking and shooting in my 45 Colts including my Marlin CB model. I size to .452 and do well.

[Foto Joe]

I bought a Remlin in 44 mag but haven't even shot it yet as I am now finding out that the 44 mag in the 1894 is not very accurate and guys are chasing their tails trying to find a bullet that works

As the old TV commercials used to say "Your mileage may vary" and it probably should. Although my '94 is a pre-Remlin I haven't found any issues other than with leading the Micro-Groove barrel, that problem was solved some time ago though. I'm using both the Lee 429-200RF and will be test firing 429215's ad 429421's tomorrow. The trick to getting the '94 to spit out cast boolits is in the sizing, I size to .431