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I guess I'm a traditionalist when it comes to loading the .45 Colt and .41 Mag. I long ago standardized on one load for the .45, because it is powerful, accurate, and can be shot in any gun except the early black powder SAA's: Lyman #454424, cast hard and sized to .454, over 10 grains Unique with standard primer. In the .41 I use three loads: The 210 grain Keith SWC hardcast lead or Sierra jacket HP, over 17 grs of 2400. (I have used as much as 19 grs of 2400, but the lower charge is more than adequate to drive one of these bullets through a deer endwise or a bear crosswise, so I go with the lower charge.) I also have an old Lyman roundnose #410426 mold that throws a 240 grain slug in wheelweight metal. I size it with a flat nose punch to make a .25" meplat, and load it over 14.5 grs of Blue Dot. Makes the .41 a 44 mag in all but waistline. Your gun may not like these loads, so use them carefully, if you use them at all. slabsides
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