ljnowell
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I load pretty much all my lead in 45acp with AA#2. That includes 200gr SWC and 230gr LRN. I find AA#2 to be much better than bullseye or w231. Its certianly much cleaner burning and meters unbelievably through a powder measure.
This has always been my method with cast. Instead of slugging bores and casting chambers, I just pick a bullet and a load and see how it works. Adjust from there. Hard, soft, fast, slow... it's all relative to your starting point.Start the same as with jacketed; pick a box off the shelf and go! Good luck.
This is pretty much my experience as well. If you just pick up a box of laser cast or other fairly hard bullet you are going to want to run them pretty fast or they will lead a bit.Everyone seems to worry about leading when pushing the bullet too fast. In my experience you get more leading when you load you 45acp to soft.
Yep.If every bore needed to be slugged and every bullet needed to be custom-sized with custom hardness/alloy, the big cast bullet retailers wouldn't exist. They're in business cuz the bullets they make will probably work for you.