185 gr FMJ bullets for .45 ACP

[Langenator]

Does anybody besides Rainier make them? Can you get round nose FMJs at all?

I got my wife a Kimber Ultra Carry for her birthday. Since 230 gr JHPs have expansion problems from short barrels, I buy 185 gr JHPs for her carry loads. I want to be able to load my own for her to practice with, but the selection of 185 gr FMJs seems to be pretty limited.

 

[sm]

Montana Gold Bullets
http://www.montanagoldbullet.com/

Great company and great service.

We reloaded a variety of calibers for students to use for CCW and continue practice, a variety of range guns and students guns....

The 185 gr JHP worked fine in the Ultra / Officers sized guns.

HTH

 

[9055]

Try http://www.berrysmfg.com. They make a 185 gr. hollow base round nose plated bullet for .45 ACP. I use them in my Glock 30 and they are really accurate.

Hope this helps.

 

[Jim Watson]

I would (DO) buy bulk 185 gr JHPs to handload practice ammo. The Remingtons are not too expensive bought in quantity.

 

[PinnedAndRecessed]

I thought in order for a jacketed bullet to expand the velocity must reach 1100 fps? According to my manuals the 185 45 ACP can't safely be loaded to reach this velocity.

 

[taliv]

i talked to sierra's tech support today and was told that the sierra 185 JHP bullets are soft enough that they expand beautifully as low as 700fps.

if you have a heavy recoil spring, you may have problems cycling that low though

they also said something interesting which I am about to test for myself, which is that their JHP are much more accurate than their match FMJs. I don't have a rail gun to test with, but i'm anxious to give it a go anyways

 

[Langenator]

My thanks to all those who pointed out the obvious to me-why am I worried about FMJs when I can load the JHPs? And testing to find out which work best is such a chore, too!

Now I just have to finish up my box of 230 gr bullets. Oh, the humanity!