milsurpguy
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Same as 9mm, but I don't have the silencer yet. Or the bullets.
Gun is a 1911, 5.75 inch barrel, 45acp loaded with a 230gr bullet and AA nitro 100 nf, as it's my fastest burning powder by far.
I have loaded a lot of 45acp, normally I use unique, AA7, you know medium to slower 45acp powders, fastest I have used was w231.
I bought a new osprey 45k while the plandemic was raging last summer for about $200 cheaper than a new one and even cheaper than the few used ones I have seen, got the k, its the shorter one and it's been in NFA jail for 8 months now, so soon it will be mine.
So need fast burning, clean burning load and a jacleted or plated bullet as the osprey is a sealed unit.
I have published load data this time, so no shooting from the hip load development.
The problem is the 45acp it's self.
All the common/cheaper 45acp hollow points seem to disappoint in ballistics gel more often than not, about half of the 230gr tests give little to no expansion beyond .45 inches unless they are top velocity +P loads.
AA nitro 100 nf doesn't give top velocities, not even with the +P loads. The nitro100nf +P loads only give normal, standard pressure 230gr velocities. So I'm thinking the only chance I really have at getting a bullet that expands is to wait for speer gold dot 230gr to come back in stock somewhere. Not paying gouge prices. Looking at the lucky gunner ballistic gel tests there is a "short barrel" gold dot load, at standard pressure I think, seems to mushroom out pretty good. The 230gr standard load gold dot also does real good.
Unless anyone knows of another good 230gr bullet that does really well in "short barrel tests"?
Hydra shocks did good but those as loose projectiles were a little hard to find even before the plandemic.
Gun is a 1911, 5.75 inch barrel, 45acp loaded with a 230gr bullet and AA nitro 100 nf, as it's my fastest burning powder by far.
I have loaded a lot of 45acp, normally I use unique, AA7, you know medium to slower 45acp powders, fastest I have used was w231.
I bought a new osprey 45k while the plandemic was raging last summer for about $200 cheaper than a new one and even cheaper than the few used ones I have seen, got the k, its the shorter one and it's been in NFA jail for 8 months now, so soon it will be mine.
So need fast burning, clean burning load and a jacleted or plated bullet as the osprey is a sealed unit.
I have published load data this time, so no shooting from the hip load development.
The problem is the 45acp it's self.
All the common/cheaper 45acp hollow points seem to disappoint in ballistics gel more often than not, about half of the 230gr tests give little to no expansion beyond .45 inches unless they are top velocity +P loads.
AA nitro 100 nf doesn't give top velocities, not even with the +P loads. The nitro100nf +P loads only give normal, standard pressure 230gr velocities. So I'm thinking the only chance I really have at getting a bullet that expands is to wait for speer gold dot 230gr to come back in stock somewhere. Not paying gouge prices. Looking at the lucky gunner ballistic gel tests there is a "short barrel" gold dot load, at standard pressure I think, seems to mushroom out pretty good. The 230gr standard load gold dot also does real good.
Unless anyone knows of another good 230gr bullet that does really well in "short barrel tests"?
Hydra shocks did good but those as loose projectiles were a little hard to find even before the plandemic.
