Vern Humphrey
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I gotta admit, I'm queer for .45s -- I have three M1911s, a Colt New Service and a Ruger Blackhawk.
I've been gearing up to load .45 Colt and I received notification that MBC is finally shipping my order of .45 Colt brass and pills. I assume full-house loads of .45 Colt will provide a similarly satisfying punch? I'm ashamed to admit I've never even handled a .45 Colt handgun.
The .460 isn't a handgun; it's a rifle that misplaced its stock!"FULL HOUSE" is what I shoot in my 460 S&W X frame.
Sometimes I even back that down to just a couple rooms.
Now I want one...
The .460 isn't a handgun; it's a rifle that misplaced its stock!
Well, Colt admits that 2nd and 3rd generation SAAs are fine with .45 ACP and .45 ACP +P loads. The latter loads generate about 23,000 psi and produce somewhere between 1,000 and 1,200 fps with a 255 grain bullet.Depends on what you shoot it in. As others have said, the Colt SAA is NOT the platform to do this with, though third generations SAA's will handle higher pressures than the first generation SAA's.
Well, Colt admits that 2nd and 3rd generation SAAs are fine with .45 ACP and .45 ACP +P loads. The latter loads generate about 23,000 psi and produce somewhere between 1,000 and 1,200 fps with a 255 grain bullet.
I've found that 1,000 fps with a wide flat nose bullet or a semi-wadcutter (Kieth style) will shoot through a white tail from side to side at any range a prudent man would use an iron-sighted handgun.
Even standard pressure loads (about 14,000 CUP) are perfectly adequate for deer.