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Thread: Anybody have a .45 ACP carbine and hunt with it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by roverboy View Post
    Just wondered if anybody has a .45 ACP carbine. I've been thinking about getting one to work up a load for it, and maybe use it for a short range/woods deer rifle. A friend casts Lee 230 gr. FP, that looks good.
    Yes i hunt deer with a 45acp.
    Glock 21 to be exact.
    No problems with shots out to 100 to 150 feet.
    Just use common sense for shot placement.
    I prefer 255 grain hardcast +P ammo.
    U gut shoot one and then ull have to follow a blood trail... If there is one...

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    I've been shooting some 245 grain Lee .45 bullets (a Lee 230 TC mold that casts heavy) using Ramshot Enforcer. Getting 975 fps out of my S&W 645. I don't have pressure testing equipment, but the fired case's primers don't show any signs of high pressure. You might want to check out this Shooting Times article.

    https://www.shootingtimes.com/editor...e-45-acp/99214
    AKA "Old Vic"
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    --Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman

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    Have a camp carbine in 45 ACP. Have never shot a deer with it since we cant use semi here in PA. I cant see it not doing the job with the right round. Had a mauser in 45 a while back and it took down coyotes and with ease.

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    For a very versatile rifle, considered getting a break over single shot rebored to .45ACP so it could be used with either .45ACP ammo, breech loaded like a Civil War carbine or muzzleloaded with either hollow base or heavier lubed or paper patched boolits. From a .45ACP plinking round to a 45-70 type penetration and knock-down, it would do it all.

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    I did some research on velocities with .45 ACP in different barrel lengths. The results I found are that 10" is the optimum barrel length.

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    I have been using patched round ball in my 45 cal muzzleloaders for deer for several decades and inside 90 yards, that 132 gr pill has never failed me. I have passed up a couple shots at decent sized black bear.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sixgun Symphony View Post
    I did some research on velocities with .45 ACP in different barrel lengths. The results I found are that 10" is the optimum barrel length.
    That is about the length of the barrel of my carbine, although if measured would be almost 17 inches.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sixgun Symphony View Post
    I did some research on velocities with .45 ACP in different barrel lengths. The results I found are that 10" is the optimum barrel length.
    One would have to know what was meant by "optimum".....optimum for what?

    If in a Handgun with a single load that probably is pretty close. However, unless one wants to register a carbine with a barrel shorter than 16" as an SBR, pay $200 to BATF + associated costs, then a 10" barrel is neither practical nor optimum for a carbine.

    Not too far back I chronographed (10 shot tests) my standard load (5.0 gr Bullseye) under a softer cast (9-10 BHN alloy) Lee 452-230-TC (sized .452, lubed with BAC) in mixed cases with WLP primers seated to 1.199 oal. All were loaded on my Dillon SDB press. An Oehler M35P was used with start screen at 10'.

    The chronographed results;

    Colt Combat Commander, 4 1/4" barrel: 849 fps

    ParaOrdnance 14, 5" barrel: 891 fps

    Colt M1911 w/Ed Brown 5 1/2" Comp barrel: 894 fps

    Contender, 10" TC barrel: 976 fps

    M98 w/Rhineland 16 1/4" barrel: 1025 fps

    Uberti ER SAA, 4 3/4" barrel: 866 fps

    S&W M1917/25, 6 3/8" barrel: 877 fps
    Larry Gibson

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