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Reloading 45colt?
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<blockquote data-quote="coyotewillie" data-source="post: 2220179" data-attributes="member: 117877"><p>How important is case fill on the 45colt? I've got two 45colt rifles now, a Uberti 1860 iron receiver (unfired yet), and a Uberti Cimarron1873 (30" bbl). I have reloaded a few rds for the '73 just to try them out. I had some AA #5 so figured on loading that with some 250g XTP's. Since then I've gotten some cast bullets I'll use too. I wasn't thinking when I started reloading these, and didn't think about how little powder 10g's would be in this size of case until I dropped that first load! Wow, I was wondering if it would even ignite decently. I've seen reference to AA #5 in some 45colt articles so I guess it's used regularly. It's always seemed recommended to have a fuller case fill for better performance. But the #5 seems to shoot decent with an avg velocity of 1078fps. I can go a bit higher but I don't want to push the toggle style actions on theses rifles. Admittedly I haven't put them on paper, just fired at 8" steel at 100yds checking to see if everything went off well. Did hit steel 4/10 times. Any other powders you'd recommend for case fill other than going to Trailboss for a full case?</p><p></p><p>Edit to add: Or, do you think the case fill is a non issue??</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="coyotewillie, post: 2220179, member: 117877"] How important is case fill on the 45colt? I've got two 45colt rifles now, a Uberti 1860 iron receiver (unfired yet), and a Uberti Cimarron1873 (30" bbl). I have reloaded a few rds for the '73 just to try them out. I had some AA #5 so figured on loading that with some 250g XTP's. Since then I've gotten some cast bullets I'll use too. I wasn't thinking when I started reloading these, and didn't think about how little powder 10g's would be in this size of case until I dropped that first load! Wow, I was wondering if it would even ignite decently. I've seen reference to AA #5 in some 45colt articles so I guess it's used regularly. It's always seemed recommended to have a fuller case fill for better performance. But the #5 seems to shoot decent with an avg velocity of 1078fps. I can go a bit higher but I don't want to push the toggle style actions on theses rifles. Admittedly I haven't put them on paper, just fired at 8" steel at 100yds checking to see if everything went off well. Did hit steel 4/10 times. Any other powders you'd recommend for case fill other than going to Trailboss for a full case? Edit to add: Or, do you think the case fill is a non issue?? [/QUOTE]
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