LEAST accurate loads you've ever made for a 1911 5" 45ACP

[Kraschenbirn]

Never tried them in my Series 70 Gold Cup, but the worst I ever shot in either my "tuned up" G.I. 1911 or my LW Commander were some mid-60s 'WCC' milsurp that I came into by way of a retired NG armorer. The 1911 would print 3" groups at 25 yds with H&G 68s and 6.0 gr. Unique; shooting the milsurp, however, it was tough to keep 7 shots on an 8" paper plate. Oddly, though, they shot fairly well in my S&W 1955 but not as well as the Remington 185 gr. jacketed WCs I used for pin shoots in those days.

Bill

[Texas by God]

The Lee .450 conical cap & ball bullet cast of pure lead, LLA lubed over compressed 3F blackpowder.
I was bored one day, and paid for it by scrubbing my old Ballester. 45 auto afterwards. They shot horribly and didn't function.....

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[Harter66]

Recently I shot a 280??? sized .270 in a 6.5 Japanese . Sized .270 because that was a suitable sizer on hand over the .268 groove , the free chambering unsized bullet shot a little better with less jump . The sized bullet shot a 3 shot group at just a touch over 42 inches at 50 yd no fouling . The sized bullet pulled it down to 18" .
For whatever it's worth the naked , checked , greased NOE 270-140 as cast at .272 shot a single 5 shot group at 4" and the king of the day was a .265 sized 266469 paper patched to .272 at 3" over 8.0 Unique . All at 50 yd .

I don't have a real base line for the 1927 made rifle but a 3" paper patched group sounds promising next to a 3.5 foot group .

[Jniedbalski]

The Lee .450 conical cap & ball bullet cast of pure lead, LLA lubed over compressed 3F blackpowder.
I was bored one day, and paid for it by scrubbing my old Ballester. 45 auto afterwards. They shot horribly and didn't function.....

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One of the best bullet in my Springfield 1911 was the lee singly cavity mold for the bp revolver. I didint use pure lead but half wheel Weights and pure. I also used lee alox or white label 45/45/10 with a light charge of bullseye. Around 3.4 to 4.0 gr.

[Jniedbalski]

The worst grouping load was a 5.0 or max load of bullseye with any lead bullet. It wasn’t bad but not as good as the lower charge.

[jim147]

Don't remember the load but it was a max of longshot. It just didn't work out so well.

[bobthenailer]

For the 45 acp it just about shoots every proper bullet or powder decent of the 6 cast bullets i make and over 12 pistols ive owned !

[KVO]

The NOE copy of the H&G #130 puked in both of my pistols with my otherwise generic .45acp starting point of 5.0gr Bullseye. The first time was a double take kind of moment, as in quadruple+ typical group sizes. For whatever reason that bullet (at least in my guns) doesn't like anything over 3.8gr of Bullseye.



Also the Mihec 452-200HP (200gr RNFP profile) was terrible with 7.0gr of CFE Pistol. The same powder charge with the Mihec 453-490HP (215gr SWC) shoots great.

[bruce381]

Sorry don't have any. But if you really want not accurate under size your bullets 2-3 thousandths.

Thats about the only way they are all accurate

[rbuck351]

My old Ballister Molina shoot about anything you can chamber fairly well using .452 boolits. I even tried a 200gr swc loaded backwards and it shot very well.
When I first got it, it wouldn't shoot anything very well. A pop can at twenty feet was fairly safe. A few years and thousands of rounds later and it shot a whole lot better. The pop can at 25yds end ways is probably done for.

[Super Sneaky Steve]

My worst grouping came from pushing swaged .224 JHPs out too fast and having the jackets spin off. Shotgun pattern.

In a handgun I had very poor luck with Lee tumble lube bullets in .45. Gave me the worst leading too. Switched back to a traditional grease grove and some soft home made lube and all was well.

[rintinglen]

In my Kimber, I managed to make a 45 scattergun with HS-6 and some un-sized Lee 452-200TL boolits. Went from shooting 2-3" to 6"+. Back to H&G 68 and Bullseye.

[onelight]

In my Kimber, I managed to make a 45 scattergun with HS-6 and some un-sized Lee 452-200TL boolits. Went from shooting 2-3" to 6"+. Back to H&G 68 and Bullseye.

I had that same success with that same boolit in my Kimber
I have had reasonable accuracy with it in other 45s but my Kimber hated it.