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Posted: 3/20/2009 6:05:45 PM EDT
| Im looking for a good and inexpensive powder for my .45acp practice loads. I just picked up some Berry's 185gr hollow based round noses. Want close to factory velocity but a little light is ok. Im just looking for some thing to get a similar load to factory but cheaper |
| I load heavier bullets so my advice may not be right. A cheap ultra fast powder like red dot, solo 1000, bullseye, clays, will make a 8lb keg last longer and is cheaper to start with. You have to deal with the increased chance of blowing up your gun from overcharges. |
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i load 4.5 grains of winchester wst with a 185 grain nosler jhp and it is a sweet load not hard damn accurate using in a kimber cdp pro 2 , colt combat commander and a springfield 5" 1911 no problems , always feeds also using winchester large pistol primers
byt as always this is not fact it just works for me thanks mac 
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Titegroup is relatively cheap and goes a long way.
It is faster then some other powders and can be snappy and smokey but it works well for 185s. 892 fps is power factor for 185s so I load about 5.2 grains of TG which gets me roughly 930 fps with LSWCs. Some people find TG to burn hot and flame around the bullets in the chamber but the gun still functions fine. |
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45acp will work decent with a wide range of fast powders.
Home run for cheepness is finding someone who gave up on loading trap or skeet loads (shotgun) and has some 8 lb kegs for cheep. I have grabbed Bullseye in the past and am presently working on a keg of 700X that was free! |
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