tcoz
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My friend and I were chronographing some loads and commercial ammo the other day using his Caldwell G2. He had some 45 ACP 230gr ball that he had purchased from a commercial reloader about a year ago at a gun show that he wanted to check while I was doing something else. When I looked at the results, every round out of two mags (fired in a Remington R1 1911) was just over 1200 fps, using a plated bullet much less. I was stunned to say the least and told him not to shoot any more of it and we'll pull all of them. When I pulled a few of the rounds, they contained 4.7gr of a very fine spherical powder and the bullets were pretty tightly crimped.
I’m not an expert on this by any means but I checked load data on 10-12 common pistol powders and didn’t see any that would give this kind of velocity from a 4.7gr charge. The company that he bought them from is pretty well known in this area and they’re a pretty small mom and pop operation so I’m sure they would have been using a commercially available powder.
Does anybody have any thoughts on this? I've never used Quickload but does it have the capability of telling you what powder has the capability to give this kind of velocity in this round? Off the top of my head I was thinking that they must have loaded the ammo with the wrong powder.
I’m not an expert on this by any means but I checked load data on 10-12 common pistol powders and didn’t see any that would give this kind of velocity from a 4.7gr charge. The company that he bought them from is pretty well known in this area and they’re a pretty small mom and pop operation so I’m sure they would have been using a commercially available powder.
Does anybody have any thoughts on this? I've never used Quickload but does it have the capability of telling you what powder has the capability to give this kind of velocity in this round? Off the top of my head I was thinking that they must have loaded the ammo with the wrong powder.