45 colt BP rifle/pistol question

[RyanJames170]

For those of you who shoot 45 colt in rifle and pistols what velocity have you achieved with your loading in your pistol and or rifle,
What is your load, bullet and barrel length for the given velocity and How accurate was the load.

[Don McDowell]

My 5 1/2 barrel registers 875 fps with a 250 gr bullet and 35 grains of OE 2f, the 16 inch barreled trapper does just short of 1100 fps.
Accuracy is decent enough in both guns. The handgun needs to have the face of the cylinder cleaned after 25 or so rounds to keep from binding, the trapper ran 50 rounds without a hiccup.

[Dave T]

Don,

I load the Big Lube 250s (SPG lubricant) over 35g of OE FFFg and have run 50 rounds through several of my USFA single actions (4-3/4", 5-1/2", and 7-1/2") with no serious binding up or need to clean. On one occasion I squirted Balistol on the B/C gap and the cylinder-pin bushing of my favorite 4-3/4" 45 Colt after 50 rounds and continued for another 25 or 30 rounds. Perhaps it was the FFFg vs FFg as I've heard FFFg burns cleaner. My best guess is it is the generous lube on the bullet that lets me keep on shooting.

YMMV,
Dave

[RyanJames170]

Big lube 250’s what bullet mold is that if I may ask?

[Don McDowell]

Dave the bullets I ran on that test were the swaged lead that Remington used to offer that were very similar to the original Colt bullet.

[RyanJames170]

Dave the bullets I ran on that test were the swaged lead that Remington used to offer that were very similar to the original Colt bullet.


have you ever ran 3f powder in 45 colt?

[Don McDowell]

Yes and it works well altho 37 grs of Olde Eynsford tended to loosen the ejector rod housing screw after a dozen or so rounds but the velocity was sizzling

[RyanJames170]

Yes and it works well altho 37 grs of Olde Eynsford tended to loosen the ejector rod housing screw after a dozen or so rounds but the velocity was sizzling
What sort of velocity you get out of the 3F?

[Don McDowell]

just a touch over 1000 fps. That's Olde Eynsford 3f

[RyanJames170]

just a touch over 1000 fps. That's Olde Eynsford 3f

that is pretty good, have you ever ran that load out of a rifle? i am rather curious what 45 colt will do out of a rifle with BP

[Don McDowell]

Never ran that load from the rifle but generally a rifle will give you 150 gos max over the same load from a revolver
45 Colt just ain’t a speed demon even with smokeless

[Outpost75]

These are the bullets I use in .45 Colt with BP:

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