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Here's the recipie I've worked up...
Ingredients;
WWB previously fired brass, fired by me
Winchester WLP Large pistol primers
Winchester 231 powder
Hornady #12308 Lead Round Nose 230 grain bullets
Press; Lee Progressive 1000
scale; MTM DS-1250 digital scale
I checked the Hornady manual at the store, and wrote down some loads to get a baseline;
4.9 grain-750 FPS
5.4 grain-800 FPS
5.8 grain-850 FPS
I want a nice, soft recoiling target load, so my recipe would be;
5.0 grains of powder with the Hornady 230 Gr bullet
with the press's current config, it's throwing a charge of 4.5-4.6 grains into the Winchester brass, for some reason, that same charge reads as 3.9-4.0 grains into Speer Gold Dot nickel plated brass
the charge it's throwing currently is exactly what's listed on the owners guide for the powder die for .45 ACP 207-230 grain, the Lee autodisk reccomends a charge of 4.6 grains of 231 for the Hornady 230 grain lead bullets
according to the Autodisk chart, if I want to throw my 5 grain charge, I'll have to move up a disk size to either .46 (4.9 Gr) or .49 (5.3 Gr)
If i was to start off with the current settings on the press, work up maybe 5-10 cartridges at 4.5 grains of 231 with a 230Gr bullet, would that be a safe starter load, or would it be too underpowered, the gun I'm using is a Kimber Classic II with a 5" barrel
I can't wait to really get into reloading, it amazes me that a pound of W231 could make 1400 rounds, given 100% powder use and no waste (of course, we all know how likely *that* is, right? )
Ingredients;
WWB previously fired brass, fired by me
Winchester WLP Large pistol primers
Winchester 231 powder
Hornady #12308 Lead Round Nose 230 grain bullets
Press; Lee Progressive 1000
scale; MTM DS-1250 digital scale
I checked the Hornady manual at the store, and wrote down some loads to get a baseline;
4.9 grain-750 FPS
5.4 grain-800 FPS
5.8 grain-850 FPS
I want a nice, soft recoiling target load, so my recipe would be;
5.0 grains of powder with the Hornady 230 Gr bullet
with the press's current config, it's throwing a charge of 4.5-4.6 grains into the Winchester brass, for some reason, that same charge reads as 3.9-4.0 grains into Speer Gold Dot nickel plated brass
the charge it's throwing currently is exactly what's listed on the owners guide for the powder die for .45 ACP 207-230 grain, the Lee autodisk reccomends a charge of 4.6 grains of 231 for the Hornady 230 grain lead bullets
according to the Autodisk chart, if I want to throw my 5 grain charge, I'll have to move up a disk size to either .46 (4.9 Gr) or .49 (5.3 Gr)
If i was to start off with the current settings on the press, work up maybe 5-10 cartridges at 4.5 grains of 231 with a 230Gr bullet, would that be a safe starter load, or would it be too underpowered, the gun I'm using is a Kimber Classic II with a 5" barrel
I can't wait to really get into reloading, it amazes me that a pound of W231 could make 1400 rounds, given 100% powder use and no waste (of course, we all know how likely *that* is, right? )