45 colt information, Linebaugh notes.

[GL49]

I knew I had read this somewhere, it took a while today to find it. It's an interesting read, written by John Linebaugh, if you're interested in his perspective generally about large bore revolvers. A lot you have probably seen this, what brought it to mind was another thread here about reloading the 45 colt. I thought it was on his website, but the information on his site wasn't what I was looking for. This document references the 45 colt in a S&W, hence my interest, I just purchased a 45 colt "mountain gun" revolver.


http://www.reinfjord.net/art/Gun%20Notes%20John%20Linebaugh.pdf

[sonoransixgun]

Great article....thanks for posting...I love my Ruger .45 BH...

[RedlegEd]

Hi,
Great read...thanks for posting!
Ed

[Wayne Dobbs]

I read this article about 10 years ago and gave his concept a try. I loaded 250 grain Keith SWCs over 6.5 Unique in .45 AR brass and got about 875 in my S&W Mountain Gun. It's been a stone killer on about two dozen Texas whitetails since then with none of them going more than 25 yards.

[Outpost75]

The Linebaugh loads in .45 Colt are too hot for older guns, such as the Colt New Service. Larry Gibson helped me out pressure testing some loads for my Colt New Service and Ruger revolvers which slightly exceed SAAMI MAP for .45 Colt, but which do not exceed MAP for the .45 ACP for which my 1920 Colt New Service revolver was designed, and I use the same loads in an S&W M1917 which John Taylor rebarreled and recylindered for me in .45 Colt by fitting a Brazilian INA manufacture barrel and line-boring a late 1960s S&W Model 29 .44 Magnum cylinder to .45 Colt for me.
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[USSR]

When I bought my S&W 25-5, I read everything Linebaugh had to say about the .45 Colt, and spoke with him a couple of times on the phone. Very helpful guy. While most of my loads are quite mild, my deer hunting loads at 1000fps - 1100fps extend the pressure level to above 20k psi. Am now in the process of experimenting with the .45 Cowboy Special brass, which is basically a .45 ACP case with the .45 Colt rim. Much better powder fill ratio with small amounts of fast powders. Happy Pascha to all the Eastern Christians on this forum.

Don

[GL49]

45 Cowboy Special. Never heard of it until now. I wonder if you could get them to work in a lever action 45 colt? Imagine pairing your levergun with a 45 colt revolver and loading these. Hmmmmm.

[Lloyd Smale]

If John said it take it to the bank. Not one once of bs in that man and never was.

[DougGuy]

Why not use 45 Schofield brass? Better fill for mid level/tier two loads, I use this in a medium framed Vaquero to launch an LBT 250gr WFN to 1200fps over 21.5gr H110 which stays just under the 23,000psi pressure ceiling of 45ACP+P.