Father Knows Best;
Yeah, that article in Handloader was really good. The author developed a 270 grain .45 colt mold that RCBS markets specifically to address the typical issues of .45 colt chambers. I've been thinking of getting one, all the reviews of it say it's excellent.
One of the problems I have in my .45 colt pistols (2 bisley vaqueros in 5.5 inches, blued; and a 7.5 inch stainless redhawk) is that while each cylinder has uniform mouths (thank God!), they all differ from one another. Short of having them all reamed out to .456, which I consider to be too big, I've thought of getting the RCBS hollow base 255 grain .45 colt bullet. The hollow base is designed to slug up in sloppily chambered pistols and still provide good accuracy. Apparently, .45 colt ammo prior to 1940 was pretty much all hollowbase for this reason, like the .41 long colt ammo.
The issue is, of course, one of money. Those hollow base molds aren't cheap!
-John
Yeah, that article in Handloader was really good. The author developed a 270 grain .45 colt mold that RCBS markets specifically to address the typical issues of .45 colt chambers. I've been thinking of getting one, all the reviews of it say it's excellent.
One of the problems I have in my .45 colt pistols (2 bisley vaqueros in 5.5 inches, blued; and a 7.5 inch stainless redhawk) is that while each cylinder has uniform mouths (thank God!), they all differ from one another. Short of having them all reamed out to .456, which I consider to be too big, I've thought of getting the RCBS hollow base 255 grain .45 colt bullet. The hollow base is designed to slug up in sloppily chambered pistols and still provide good accuracy. Apparently, .45 colt ammo prior to 1940 was pretty much all hollowbase for this reason, like the .41 long colt ammo.
The issue is, of course, one of money. Those hollow base molds aren't cheap!
-John
