Best .45 ACP boolit for bowling pins?

[TXGunNut]

Truncated cone boolits seem to "smack" and "grab" pins when properly hit. I think the driving band does the grabbing, the meplat does the smacking. Look at a well-used pin sometime. The covering stretches to allow a RN bullet to pass thru with hardly a hole. TC boolits cut a hole in the cover. Look to the history of the game, you'll find it was designed to put the guys shooting light & fast projectiles at a disadvantage. Momentum and energy transfer are the keys here. I've gotten by with 200 gr target loads but if I were to get serious about it I think a 220 gr TC boolit would be pretty awesome as I tend to prefer decisive hits over speed.

[Hang Fire]

Rn hb.

[Forrest r]

Shot tons of the h&g 68's for a lite bullet & lymans 454190 250gr rnfp for heave bullets.

[dave_g]

I have had success using the Lee 230TC bullet on pins.

[DougGuy]

I last shot pins with a 255gr LSWC! I had no feeding issues with a Para-Ordnance lower and a WWI era 1911 upper which the only mod to the barrel was a nicely polished throat. Choose the spring rate by double tapping paper @ 7yds, until your pairs are 1" and you are ready. If the second shot is low, decrease the spring. If it is high, increase.

[jaysouth]

This is the Saeco 058 style made by Magnus Bullets. It is my defensive round and hits with authority at 850 fps.



It feeds in all my 1911s.

[44MAG#1]

That Saeco 058 bullet is the bullet I like best right now with a heavy like the 454424 my second pick.
Cast hard it should be the berries for just about anything. Right now I am working on a load for self defense using it.
It feeds well in all 3 of my 45 autos.

[JMax]

As an old Second Chance Master Blaster a 255 SWC and about 5 gr of WW 231 was the right ticket. I switched to a 230 gr H&G wad cutter loaded in 38 spl cases with about 7 gr of Blue Dot and got my MB patch shooting that combo through my 686s. While shooting the ACP load I won numerous firearms shooting it in team events. Enjoy

[dnotarianni]

You can not go wrong with plain hardball @ center of mass. Best choice is a 230gr HP so the HP grabs if your off center. With pins big and slow vs light and fast and big and slow wins from a physics standpoint. Don't take this wrong, 200gr with 4gr of bullseye will take them off the table, but to absolutly remove them you want something thats going to drive them off the table before they even think about falling down. A pin on it's side usually means your going to lose that run. The 255 swc is a great choice in a revolver for the first 6rounds but your back to RN on a reload with the moon clips

[bhn22]

Any load you use needs to have enough energy & momentum to drive the pins straight back about 4 feet. Then all you have to do is hit them in the center of the big white part.

[Artful]

I liked the 230 grn Truncated Cone myself. I tried the 255 Keith SWC but too hard on the gun IMHO. Can you use a lighter boolit - yep but you have less room for error.