What is your Favorite .45 cal bullet for accuracy?
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Thanks, I have Titegroup and Accurate No. 5 on hand. Just need to get me some bullets!
Russellc
I love the 200g Xtreme SWC with Bullseye but the barrel in my Glock 30S does not like SWC bullets. I have a G41 on order which I hope will function this bullet. Sometimes they will work but usually have a jam. That is very disappointing because the SWC seems to group the best.
I have tried different OALs to no avail. I would change the barrel but that is not allowed in GSSF and that is my main objective.
If you're running a G-30, you might want to steer clear of SWCs. My G-30, and other peoples' G-30s have trouble with SWCs, lead, jacketed or plated.
They feed fine, but empty cases don't extract cleanly if the next round in the mag is a SWC. The extracted case hits the shoulder of the SWC at the top of the mag and bounces off the extractor, causing failures to extract/eject.
The G-30 does great with plated flat points (TC) for cheap practice, or the excellent 200 grain Hornady HAP for a match bullet.
They feed fine, but empty cases don't extract cleanly if the next round in the mag is a SWC. The extracted case hits the shoulder of the SWC at the top of the mag and bounces off the extractor, causing failures to extract/eject.
The G-30 does great with plated flat points (TC) for cheap practice, or the excellent 200 grain Hornady HAP for a match bullet.
ljnowell
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People font think of this profile as accurate but some of the best 45 acp groups I ever fired were Missouri Bullet 230gr Softballs over 5.3 gr of AA#2.
Toprudder
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Rocky Mountain Reloading's own line of 230 gr thick plated RN with 5.0 gr of W231/HP-38 - http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=761471
BDS, glad to see that! I just received some of those to try out.
FWIW, I did the "plunk test" in my barrel with those. (Witness steel-frame 45). About the longest I can seat those bullets is 1.215, with some wiggle room left. All of the data on the Hodgdon/Win/IMR website show a 1.200 COL, so I'm hoping that data will work well for me.
I've shot a lot of the Xtreme 230 RN, those have a completely different ogive profile, I can seat them at the max of 1.275 and still not be close to the lands in the barrel. Due to the shape of the ogive, I can't comfortably seat those less than 1.210 - 1.220 or the case mouth won't be in contact with the bullet. I have not really shot for accuracy with those yet, just for plinking at steel mainly, so I don't know how they fare with accuracy. I also have some of the 200 and 230 HPs from Xtreme, have not shot any of the 230s yet.
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Russell, sent you a PM.
LiveLife
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Just prior to the great "Component Shortage", blarby traded some cast bullets for reloading equipment/components and these water quenched 200 gr SWC TL bullets were tack drivers that outshot commercial bullets!blarby said:
RMR's own line of "Thicker Plated" 230 gr RN has shorter round nose that extends the bullet base/bearing surface with dished base so they will need to be loaded shorter (like Missouri 9mm 124 gr RN SmallBall) - http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=761471Toprudder said:
While factory PMC 230 gr RN at 1.255" works well, due to the nose profile, I need to load RMR TP 230 RN shorter at 1.230" for Citadel 1911 and 1.200" for Sig 1911 (which has almost no leade and quick start of rifling).
Guess I should re ask the question specific to the Glock 30S...Several have commented about fail to eject problems with the SWC and Glock 30 series pistols.
One post suggested Flat points, previously I have seen posts liking the X-treme flat point, Anyone have any info about this? I need bullets and was about to order some 200 grain x-treme plated SWC, but received warning before I did. Anyone have any problems with the flat point?
What say the Glock 30 series shooter say?
thanks guys,
Russellc
One post suggested Flat points, previously I have seen posts liking the X-treme flat point, Anyone have any info about this? I need bullets and was about to order some 200 grain x-treme plated SWC, but received warning before I did. Anyone have any problems with the flat point?
What say the Glock 30 series shooter say?
thanks guys,
Russellc
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Commercial or hobbyist cast 200 gr. SWC bullet from an H&G 68 mold with 4.9 grains of W231... OUTSTANDING!! This is not just my experience, but everyone who has tried it has stuck with it.
LiveLife
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I could never get my G30 to feed SWC reliably. G21 was better but never 100%.RussellC said:
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