Snowdog
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A friend of mine purchased some Lee dies, Hodgdon H110 powder and Wincester magnum rifle primers, but no bullets.
I have an ample supply (circa 7,000) of Winchester 230gr FMJs for my .45acp 1911s and figure since they're .451/.452 just as the .460 S&W Magnum, it should work just fine.
None of my reloading manuals have any reloading information for the .460S&W Mag and there are only a few on-line that I've found so far that offer recipes for this cartridge. I found on Hodgdon's website some loads for this cartridge using the H110 on hand, but just as all other sites I've found so far, none offer any recipes for the 230gr projectiles intended for the .45acp; most seem to skip from the 200gr bullets straight to the 240 and 250 grain projectiles, missing the plentiful 230gr altogether..
Here's the question:
Since Hodgdon's site posted a recipe involving 46gr of H110 under a 240gr bullet as in between "starting load" and "max", could this also be used for 230grain bullets? I'm guessing by using figures intended for slightly heavier bullets, the pressure will be bit less if a slightly lighter bullets of the same caliber is used instead (even if the muzzle flash might be increased somewhat).
I have an ample supply (circa 7,000) of Winchester 230gr FMJs for my .45acp 1911s and figure since they're .451/.452 just as the .460 S&W Magnum, it should work just fine.
None of my reloading manuals have any reloading information for the .460S&W Mag and there are only a few on-line that I've found so far that offer recipes for this cartridge. I found on Hodgdon's website some loads for this cartridge using the H110 on hand, but just as all other sites I've found so far, none offer any recipes for the 230gr projectiles intended for the .45acp; most seem to skip from the 200gr bullets straight to the 240 and 250 grain projectiles, missing the plentiful 230gr altogether..
Here's the question:
Since Hodgdon's site posted a recipe involving 46gr of H110 under a 240gr bullet as in between "starting load" and "max", could this also be used for 230grain bullets? I'm guessing by using figures intended for slightly heavier bullets, the pressure will be bit less if a slightly lighter bullets of the same caliber is used instead (even if the muzzle flash might be increased somewhat).