.45ACP - What's you favorite powder?

[Riss]

Red Dot, small charges but not too small. Powder is cheap in bulk too.

 

[goose2]

Unique and bulls eye for me. Next I will try good old Win 231.

 

[ADKWOODSMAN]

My bullseye 25 yard load was always 3.7 gr. of bullseye with a 200 swc sized .451 in my series 70 Goldcups.

I also used Unique for heavy loads

IPSC AA#5.

 

[bluetopper]

Clays, American Select, Universal, & Bullseye are hard to beat!

 

[Jasper86]

my pin loads (260gr RNFP), i run 5.8gr of W231.

my target/practice loads, i run 5.2gr of bullseye under a 200gr LSWC. will shoot a group the size of a quarter @ 50ft if i do my part, and feels like factory ammo (i KNOW i can run mousefart loads for PPC and similiar games, but i dont like swapping out recoil springs all the time, and especially dont like not being used to the recoil of a factory 230gr round)


both have been superbly accurate for me, and done exactly what i wanted them to do

 

[7mmSTW]

Vihtavouri N-350...so far my Go to powder for .40 .45 & .38 special. Have tried titegroup, unique, silhouette, & 800-x. I LOVE the N-350, seems like the best kept secret in the biz...

 

[Sport45]

My favorite used to be W231. Then I found Titegroup and it became my favorite powder for my 1911's.

My current favorite powder is Unique. Once I work through my 4# jug of Unique I suppose Universal will have to be my favorite since I have 8# ordered. Call me fickle,,,,but it seems to be really hard to go wrong when loading for the .45acp.

 

[Captal_de_Buch]

Most favorite 45acp powder for me is W231, followed by New Formula Unique

 

[748]

I use Unique right now for all my 45ACP loads.
Unique is great in 45 for full power loads it burns clean.

Buy in bulk. A pound will only load about 1000 good full power rounds.

 

[marcodo]

Always have used W231 but have lots of titegroup. Whats the load people are using?

 

[Slamfire]

I like Bullseye the best, but I have at lot of estate sale W231 to get through. W231 shoots very even with loads that are clocking barely over 700 fps with a 230 LRN.

Kimber Custom Classic 				
						
200 LSWC 5.6 grs W231 Mixed cases Fed 150
11-Sep-05  T = 88 °F
	
Ave Vel =	854					
Std Dev =	21.21					
ES	87.61					
High	907.1					
Low	819.5					
N =	32					
						
			
						
						
230 LRN  4.6 grs W231 Mixed Brass WLP
4-Sep-05 T = 92 °F	
		
Ave Vel =	732.5					
Std Dev =	10.72				
ES	40.15	
High	752.1					
Low	712					
N =	32				 	
						
230 LRN  4.8  grs W231 Mixed brass WLP 
10-Jul-05 T = 84 °F	
OAL 1.250" taper crimp .469"	
Ave Vel =  767.3			
Std Dev =  14.03			
ES=  52.69			
High =  793.4			
Low =  740.7			
N=  32


230 FMJ RN  5.0  grs 231 R-P cases WLP 				
10-Jul-05 T = 84 °F						
Ave Vel =	755.7					
Std Dev =	17.23					
ES	64.39				 	
High	784.8				 	
Low	720.4				 	
N = 22


230 LFN 5.5 grs W231 Mixed brass CCI300 primers			
30-Dec-04 T = 60 °F
						
Ave Vel =	797.8					
Std Dev =	32.2					
ES	154.2					
High	858.2					
Low	703.9					
N =	32

 

[Texastbird]

I'll throw in PB just because my old buddy down the street gave me two older cans of it. I worked up a nice target load with 200 gr. plated bullets and it shoots real nice, especially for free. I will go back to Unique and Titegroup though.

 

[WildeKurt]

Bullseye: 4.8gr under a 230g FMJRN. I used to use Unique for my 38special but it didn't burn clean or completely. I try to keep my powder choices as simple as possible and Bullseye does a good 38 and a very good 45ACP.

 

[GotCoffee]

And another one for unique.

 

[BLJimmy]

Used to use 231, but am switching to Clays. It is a lot cleaner in my SW 625.

 

[GeauxTide]

Used Unique and 231 with hard cast 200gr SWC in my Springfield 1911-A1. Unique shoots best, but a little dirty.

 

[charlie-6]

Bullseye-titegroup-clays with 200 swc for 45acp.

 

[FlyinBryan]

i like hp38

 

[jd70]

I use titegroup for 45acp and 45 colt,(not to mention 38, 357, 9mm, 44 sp).

 

[woodchuck315]

I use 4.5gr of titegroup behind a 200gr SWC. Will be trying the same charge for 9mm soon as I can get bullets, dies, and primers...Hodgdon's online data shows it to be a starting load for 9mm...perfect if it works, one less thing to change! Titegroup is good for everything from .380 to .500S&W!!! Might not be best, but it has load data for them all. Even has data for 12ga. Not bad...

 

[orionengnr]

I use 231-- 5.2-5.6 gr behind a 200 gr lead SWC. I'm very happy with it, but after reading all of these different response, I'm tempted to try others as well.

Note: 231 also works in many other calibers, which is why I decided on it in the first place.

 

[Ky Larry]

For lead bullets I use Trail Boss. For jacketed bullets I use AA#7. I have used and like Unique. It's a lot cleaner now. We used to call it "Flaming Dirt.
AA#2 is very versitile, shoots clean and is fairly accurate.