What is your favorite powder for reloading .45acp?

[Walkalong]

HP-38 with LSWC

Which is, of course, W231.

 

[JoelSteinbach]

AA#5 or Titegroup

 

[shooter_from_show-me]

Titegroup for auto's and bullseye for the wheel guns.

 

[mbonner]

Geen Dot, as I have lots of it for my shotshell reloading. Herco too, as I have a pile of that too. Titegroup for my 38 Special wadcutter loads for my S&W 52-2 as a little goes a long way!
Mike

 

[deacon8]

I like Unique myself. In fact, I like it so much, I don't even bother with any other powder for the .45 anymore. I can do anything with the .45 ACP I want with it. Light charge, hot charge, light bullets, heavy bullets; doesn't matter, Unique does it.

 

[EddieNFL]

Over the years I've used 231, Herco, Bullseye, 452AA, 473AA, 540, N310, RedDot, Unique, Clays, Universal Clays, Titegroup, WST, Autocomp and some I'm sure I've forgotten. All work well, some better than others. 452AA, 231, Clays and Autocomp stand out in my mind.

These days I use 231. If 452AA were still in production, I could delete half (or more) of that list.

 

[PO2Hammer]

VV N310 and Titegroup. (light loads)

 

[dudlee]

Using Titegroup for 45acp, 9mm, and 45 Colt. seems to meter consistently in the Lee auto-disk..

 

[supercalvin56]

Clays is a good choice in 45 ACP with 185 or 200 LSWC. Clean, accurate, light, inexpensive.

 

[Miata Mike]

I use Bullseye, Unique, and most recently WST.

 

[RugerBob]

700-x works for me.

 

[floydster]

Trail Boss.

 

[ColtPythonElite]

Unique for lead.

Power Pistol for jacketed or plated.

 

[Shimitup]

I use Bullseye for lead target loads and mostly W231 and sometimes Unique for jacketed.

 

[cfullgraf]

700-X

Back up/alternates Unique and AA#5

 

[gunlaw]

I have used several powders for 45 acp but I always come back to AA#5

 

[jfrey]

Unique for everything. No reason to change.

 

[Ala Dan]

Good Stuff

Universal

 

[blarby]

Unique for me.

 

[FROGO207]

231, Blue dot, 700X, Promo, Unique. All work OK for me with various loads in different pistols. Use 700X the most followed by 231.

 

[Sixty Gunner]

Win 231

 

[rg1]

Unique and AA#5.

 

[USSR]

The beauty of the .45 ACP is, that whatever powder you've got around for loading 12 gauge shells, it will work just fine for the .45 ACP. In addition to W231, I also use Solo 1000.

Don

 

[Jeff H]

231 and Bullseye

 

[Sport45]

Unique for now. When it's gone I'll open my jug of Universal and probably use it fro a while.