Hot Loads
You also might wanna consider using those "Ruger Only" handloads in moderation, or avoid the very top-end of the data. Ain't been that long ago, an old friend of mine who ignored that caveat brought his Blackhawk to me to see why the empty cases were stuck in their chambers. I drove'em out with a rod, and they were bulged for about 3/4ths of the circumference of the cases just forward of the head. They'd swaged themselves into the corresponding bulges in the chambers. Scratch one Blackhawk cylinder. Back to Ruger she went.
Found the same situation in a Model 19 Smith about a year later on all chambers...but not quite as bad...after I'd bought it.
There aren't many critters that you can kill with a .45 Colt firing a 250-270 grain bullet at 1400 fps that you can't kill just as dead with the same bullet at 1100-1200 fps. Much beyond that, and more velocity mainly serves to flatten trajectory without adding much to the lethality at reasonable ranges.
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Last edited by 1911Tuner; March 1, 2013 at 03:24 PM.
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