That would be my tuned Taylor Uberti in .45 Colt, the Italian Stallion Single Action Army revolver that has graced these pages in a few earlier blogs. It was a good day…a couple of my good buddies stopped by with brass they didn’t want (including the ultra-tough-to-get-these-days .45 Colt), and I was hard at it on the reloading bench shortly thereafter. My go to fun load in .45 Colt is 6.4 grains of Trail Boss, a 200-grain cast bullet (in this case the truncated roundnose thrown by the Lee mold, although just about any 200-grain semi-wadcutter works equally as well), and a crimp for an overall cartridge length of 1.595 inches. It was 5 shots at 50 feet, and I was putting them pretty much into one ragged hole just about exactly at my point of aim. You just gotta love a good Single Action Army revolver…I sure do!
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About the only thing I don’t like about Trail Boss powder is that it doesn’t obturate well, although you wouldn’t know it from the accuracy this load delivers. Trail Boss soils the cases and they take longer to come clean in the tumbler, but it’s a small price to pay for this kind of accuracy.
The nice thing about the Trail Boss load mentioned here is that it shoots just about to point of aim for me at 50 feet. Another nice thing is there’s almost no recoil…this load in a Single Action Army is a real powder puff. Yeah, I could go hotter, but what would be the point?
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Hmmm… If I only knew all the ALL stuff you know, then I would get my .45 out, I have my Dad’s old Italian made 45 caliber six shooter. It is just like the ones used in “Hell on Wheels” the TV series. Then I would make all the reloads, find a good range, buy paper targets and shoot it myself. But, alas, I have none of those skills. I guess the next best thing is to read about it and enjoy. This is very cool you stuff you know!
Thanks, Terry. And yes, I know this is very cool stuff.
“What’s the point” of hotter rounds? There’s isn’t one if you’re only shooting paper or beer cans. I started off into .45 Colt nigh on 20-years ago shooting “cowboy” loads.
For several years now I’ve been stuck on my favorite std. pressure, yet full power load. It’s a Lee .452-255RF tumble lubed and sized to .452″ over 8.2-gr of Hodgdon’s Universal. I also load the same bullet, lubed with SPG, over 40-gr of 3F Goex. There’s nothing in NW Alabama that either of those loads can’t take.
Very cool and thanks for the inputs.
Joe, that was hand held? Or was the gun in some sort of mount to test the accuracy?
Two hand hold, rested on the bench. No machine mount.