45 acp loads

[Painless]

okay here is what I have 45acp + 185 grain jacketed bullets + bullseye. How many grains should I be looking at for plinking loads?

 

[16Bore]

Outta Lyman 49th. If you want a real soft shooter, go 230's with Clays. I'm using 3.8 Clays w/WLP @ 1.253. Not snappy, just a bit of a shove...

 

[Painless]

230's shoot like shit, hence the 185 action, looking at 7.0 grains of bullseye, quickload says I wont blow my face off so that ishow I am going to roll

 

[16Bore]

That's a heavy plinker, I'm only running a 14# recoil spring, it's just a CH under IPSC Major in my gun...

 

[16Bore]

The Hornady 185 XTP's will fuck some shit up...

 

[Rogue]

I've ran gazillions of 200 gr lead and 5 grains of Bullseye.

 

[hangunnr]

5 gr Bullseye might require a lighter recoil spring but will be an easy to shoot load.

In my wadcutter guns I run 3.6gr Bullseye under a swaged 185gr LHP.

CR

 

[Spencer SS]

3.5 of Bullseye under 230gn lead, gets 550+; but that's a minor load. Never had a problem cycling in the 625 *grin*