What is your favorite ammo for .45acp?

[odysseus]

I am curious. For those who buy .45acp, what is your favorite round to buy? Also, I am thinking of buying some flatnose(flat point) FMJ ammo in this caliber, but don't know what's worth trying out.

 

[Kevlarman]

Winchester White Box value packs!

 

[Al Thompson]

WWB for practice and Georgia Arms 230 gr Gold Dots for serious use/carry.

Have a couple of K of 200 gr swc reloads that work great in one 1911. When I run out of those, I'll reload another 3 or 4 K.

 

[stans]

I usually reload my own and tailor the load to the gun. When I buy ammo for one of my 45's I usually go to Walmart and get the 100 round box of Winchester USA 230 grain FMJ for $19.99. It's cheap, it works, it's readily available and it is reliable.

 

[oneshooter]

Handloaded 200gr cast SWC for practice. Speer 200gr JHP factory for serious.

Oneshooter
Livin in Texas

 

[foghornl]

Range rounds: Blazer Brass or the well-known USA [Winchester White Box]

Serious Socializing Ammo: Remington 230-Gr Golden Sabre

Also use a Commercial Reloader's stuff for range rounds National Bullet Company of Eastlake Ohio [www.nationalbullet.com

 

[Berg01]

"For those who buy .45acp, what is your favorite round to buy?"

Blazer Brass and UMCs

"Also, I am thinking of buying some flatnose(flat point) FMJ ammo in this caliber, but don't know what's worth trying out."

When I can get 200gr LRNFP reloads from a friend of mine for $8.00/box, this is the best target ammo I have found to shoot in my SW1911.

 

[cratz2]

For practice ammo, I've used a lot of S&B and Winchester White Box. At equal price, I prefer the S&B.

For more serious uses, I like 230 Gr Golden Sabers for standard pressure loads and 200 Gr +P Gold Dots though the latter is a notoriously questionable feeding round.

 

[Lennyjoe]

WWB for practice until I get some reloading supplies.

For personal defense I choose Speer Gold Dot 200gr +P out of a 4" Kimber Pro Carry.

 

[R.H. Lee]

Mostly WWB or S&B hardball. What do you all think about WWB 230 gr JHP for defense?

 

[Nando Aqui]

Sellier & Bellot 230-FMJ from Natchez @ $8.25/box of 50. Great stuff, accurate, and reloadable!

Natchez also has Rem UMC 230-gr FMJ @ $7.99/box. I haven't used this one myself, but have read that it is very good as well.

Alex

 

[Z_Infidel]

WWB and S&B hardball.

 

[Werewolf]

Before I started reloading mostly S&B 230gr FMJ with the occassional WWB thrown in. The S&B ammo is IMO superior to the WWB as it is more consistant and a bit hotter.

Now I reload. For practice I use a 230gr FMJ. For SD a 230gr Hornady XTP. My Sig gets HP-38 and my 1911 AA#5.

 

[larryw]

What Werewolf said. My load data's different, but he nailed the rest for me.

 

[GaryP]

Remington 230gr Golden Sabre for serious work!
Georgia Arms 230gr FMJ -- Canned Heat -- for the range & other fun stuff.

Gary

 

[alwayshungry]

winchester white box for play (and some occasional umc)

corbon +p 185 grain hp for business

 

[nitesite]

Originally posted by RileyMC:
What do you all think about WWB 230 gr JHP for defense?

I'm still in the early stages of trying it for all-round practice and carry ammo. Gotta admit it's hard to give up carrying 230-gr standard Gold Dots, but I don't feel any less well-armed when i have the USA45JHP WWBs in it.

In my informal testing (set up by a NASA engineer shooting pard) it performs very, very well and has not plugged nor failed to expand. This thru 4-layer denim, 1/4" ply and water jugs (or clay). They held together extremely well without shedding its jacket from the core.

It is as accurate as any other brand I have tried. And the flash is quite low, almost equal to the factory Speer Gold Dot 230-gr cartridge. Velocity standard deviation is about normal <20 fps.

 

[lee n. field]

Buy? Wally World white box.

Shoot? handloaded 230 grain FMJ or LRN.

 

[dairycreek]

230 grain FMJ!

I use any brand that reliably works in my guns. Mostly it is UMC.

 

[Magnum88C]

Practice? UMC, PMC, Federal American Eagle, Winchester White box 230-gr FMJ

Rearranging a bag guy's plans? 230-gr Hydra-Shok or 230-gr Gold Dot.

 

[fedlaw]

Competition: Federal Gold Match SWC 185gr.:Reliable, accurate, very little recoil
Carry: Speer 185gr +P, JHP: Reliable, accurate, lots of muzzle energy.
Everything else: 230gr. hardball based on $, mostly Fed. Amer. Eagle, Blazer Brass, Aquila, Win. white box; all about the same with slight differences in point of aim. I have also run S&B, Zero, Black Hills and Speer Lawman. My finicky SIG P220 turned me off to S&B; my S&W 625 doesn't like Zero. My Kimber seems to be able to digest everything without getting an upset stomach (without me getting an upset stomach, that is.)

 

[Schwatt]

Practice: 230gr American Eagle (can't beat it for $9.99 a box!)

Carry: 185gr +p Cor-Bon

 

[Lone_Gunman]

I use hardball for practice and defense.

UMC, Winchester, or S&B... its all about the same.

 

[RRTX]

Practice - WWB mostly
Carry - 230gr Winchester Ranger T

 

[Bulldozer]

Carry: PMC-El Dorado 230-grain Starfire JHP. Feeds and functions flawlessly. Reliable expansion and nice thump.

Practice: Anything that's affordable, and often reloads too.