45 Long Colt and looking for a recipe.

[bangerjim]

1st - Powder Coat EVERYTHING! That eliminates any worry of leading - if your boolit is sized for your barrel first. PC is amazing, but cannot cure poor fits - all the time.

I shoot GOBS of 45 LC's in anything from 180 to 300gn (revolvers and long guns) and the alloy I use is somewhere between 9-12 +PC. It varies a tad with every batch. Since going with PC 8+ years ago, I don't worry about mixes or hardness at all. Just good clean lead-free smoke-free accurate (for me!) shooting every time.

[gwpercle]

Let's go back to basic's . "Sixgun Cartridges & Loads" by Elmer Keith ,
45 Colt , standard loads , normal pressure : 1 part Tin / 20 parts Lead (1/20)
Heavy Loads , higher pressure -hunting loads : 1 part Tin / 16 parts Lead (1/16)
This information is from the old man himself ... he warns against revolver boolits of pure lead used in heavy loads , he claims pressures can spike ... but Elmer didn't have the magic powers of the powder coated boolit ... I don't know if coated boolits / pure lead and heavy magnum loads work .
Gary

[bangerjim]

I have all the old Keith books and the Pet Load books and old loading manuals from most manufacturers and makers that were "pure unadulterated gospel"......35+ years ago! Even a lot of the LASC web stuff needs to be updated. New powders and PC technology have changed a lot of the way we look at, think about, and do reloading and I never use that old info except for interesting historical/hysterical reading.

Some things do not change, some thing DO change! Some things totally reinvent themselves over time.

[mehavey]

FWIW: Again, look at the data.
There's not hill of beans difference between 20-to-1 and 16-to-1.
Adding add'k tin (absent Antimony) does nothing but add $$$-signs.

[PhatForrest]

What has surprised was Reactor Shielding Lead (came in bricks from when I was a real person) is EXTREMELY soft.

So I gotta ask, how did you get your hands on lead reactor shielding???

[mehavey]

That was back when I was a real person.
PS: `was detector shielding -- massive brick structure filled room/at least10x10/multiple layers deep
but same lead bricks in both cases.

[Outpost75]

Agree with CharGar on 1 to 30 tin-lead for hollow points. Here is my 255-grain cup point propelled by 6.5 grains of Bullseye from the Colt New Service shot into water jugs.

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