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45-70 loads?
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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 1289875" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>Here's why I asked. I shoot several .44 mags and one .445 super mag. The 44's will shoot a 250 grain lead bullet with a gas check at 1400 fps in an 8" barrel using AA #9. I could load them a little hotter (about a grain and a half more powder). They same load in a 12" barrel will do 1650 fps. I can get about a hundred rounds out of the 8" barrel before leading starts (Linotype). The 1650 fps barrel will do about 15 shots before we see leading. The super mag is a different ball game. It'll do about 1780 to 1850fps with a 14" barrel. Yet after 10 shots it needs cleaning. The bullets are the same with a gas check (Lyman Keith mold). The guns are more accurate without the gas check, but good for about ten shots a piece. On the otherhand a similar shaped .45 LC bullet at a tick under 1200fps seems to shoot forever. My 30 Herrett shooting a fire forming load (170 grain cast lead bullet @ about 1800 fps) will show lead in ten rounds and probably less. Of course I don't worry about the leading, but it's there. reason I load them so hot is the cases come out nearly perfect at the shoulder, and they're strait. I usually con my sons into shooting them as after about fifty rounds your hand gets tired. But they are not smart enough to know this! A serious bear to get the lead out I might add here. 1600fps seems to be the cut off point for me anyway.</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 1289875, member: 25383"] Here's why I asked. I shoot several .44 mags and one .445 super mag. The 44's will shoot a 250 grain lead bullet with a gas check at 1400 fps in an 8" barrel using AA #9. I could load them a little hotter (about a grain and a half more powder). They same load in a 12" barrel will do 1650 fps. I can get about a hundred rounds out of the 8" barrel before leading starts (Linotype). The 1650 fps barrel will do about 15 shots before we see leading. The super mag is a different ball game. It'll do about 1780 to 1850fps with a 14" barrel. Yet after 10 shots it needs cleaning. The bullets are the same with a gas check (Lyman Keith mold). The guns are more accurate without the gas check, but good for about ten shots a piece. On the otherhand a similar shaped .45 LC bullet at a tick under 1200fps seems to shoot forever. My 30 Herrett shooting a fire forming load (170 grain cast lead bullet @ about 1800 fps) will show lead in ten rounds and probably less. Of course I don't worry about the leading, but it's there. reason I load them so hot is the cases come out nearly perfect at the shoulder, and they're strait. I usually con my sons into shooting them as after about fifty rounds your hand gets tired. But they are not smart enough to know this! A serious bear to get the lead out I might add here. 1600fps seems to be the cut off point for me anyway. gary [/QUOTE]
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