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Posted: 12/24/2025 5:30:35 PM EDT
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I have been pushing 45 colt to see what I could achieve. It has been primarily using a 24" Winchester 1892 at the platform The most recent loads have been using Nosler 240 grain JSP's using "Ruger Only" loads which are obviously for handguns, in a rifle...wowzers!! My ladder today, using H110 and CCI large pistol mag primers, hit 2000fps! The brass still looks grear with no primer flattening or even stretched brass. Although, this is all new starline on their first firings. What really surprised me was the standars deviation numbers on the most accurate load....SD was 4!!! I was using a PA glx 3 moa red dot and averaged 1.5" 3 shot groups with the most accurate being 1.25" which is about the best I can do with a red dot. Noe, the downside...recoil! It was fearsome, on par with a non-muzzle braked 300 win mag. I fired 12 loads and by the end, I was very glad it was over ??. They are not loads I would plink with but for hunting, these would be hard to beat. |
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Originally Posted By Genin: Excess power will ALWAYS find a way out. It is seldom safe, fun, or cheap when it finally does find it's way out. I am nowhere near what an 1892 can handle. They are capable of extensive diets of 53,000 psi, quikload has me at 38,000 (ish) |
IIRC H110/296 was designed as a military powder for the 30 carbine, so in a way of speaking you're using it as a 45 Carbine  (straight walled rifle case) so it should do excellent.When you run it hot it is very consistent. My advice is if you find a load your guns like stock up on H110 / 296 as sometimes it's not always available. |
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Sidenote on the subject. I also load my own for my Henry and Blackhawk. I want to use jacketed soft points for hunting and no one seems to make them under 300 gr which is too long for the Henry. I loaded a box thinking the flat nose would squeeze by and nope. They get caught up when you try to close the bolt. I resorted to droping one in the ejection port and loading it at the front then following it up with something that will load. |
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Originally Posted By wvfarrier: It was suggestes to me, by a levergun guru, that if I was so inclined I could trim back 454 casull brass and push the envelope even more. I politely declined as I have no interest in watching my shoulder leave my body as 2000fps. Somewhere I have an old Reloader Magazine article discussing that very thing. I bought some 454 brass, but that is as far as I got. The "Ruger only" loads are quite impressive out of a rifle. I need to get it together and finish restocking my '92. The horrid Brazilian wood it came with isn't fit for a fire. |
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Originally Posted By Ndenway1twicetimes: For ruger/tc +p loads try hodgdon lilgun powder. Best of all, Lil'Gun produces those with a peak pressure of 24,800 CUP vs H110 producing a peak pressure of 40,700 CUP which beats up the brass a ton more. My .45 Colt leverguns both have toggle link actions so I have to keep them at standard pressures. Hodgdon's reloading site says that the peak pressure using lil'Gun with 45 Colt Ruger loads is 29,200 CUP vs 30,000 CUP using H110. |
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