Red River Bullets 185g SWC 45 cal Loading Data?

xracer98 · January 31, 2013, 08:42 PM

Stopped by a local gun store and picked up two boxes of these Red River Bullets to try. I have been using Oregon Trail 200g SWC in the past. The powders that I use are Hodgdon's Titegroup and Win 231. Looking thru the loading data on the web site and in the manuals that I have, I can not find any thing for 185g swc. I called Hodgdon's and they informed me to go with 4.2 g - 5.1g and col of 1.140. Looking at the loading data charts, this is whats shown for 180 g LFP bullets. I did a test seat on a empty case with the bullet pressed to 1.140. See the attached pics for reff. 1.140 seems a bit too much from the looks. The one on the left is the 200 g pressed to 1.250. The one on the right is the 185g pressed to 1.140... How much is changed in a load if the COL is increased?
My pistol that I'm using is the XDS-45

dickttx · February 1, 2013, 07:38 PM

It seems that most load SWC to where just a good thumbnail width of the full diameter of the bullet is above the case mouth.

wncchester · February 1, 2013, 07:50 PM

Seat lead bullets to the crimping groove and shoot them. No firearm cares what form the bullet's nose is,

February 1, 2013, 07:38 PM	#2
dickttx Senior Member Join Date: May 29, 2011 Location: Fort Worth Posts: 500	It seems that most load SWC to where just a good thumbnail width of the full diameter of the bullet is above the case mouth. __________________ Education teaches you the rules, experience teaches you the exceptions (Plagiarized from Claude Clay)

February 1, 2013, 07:50 PM	#3
wncchester Senior Member Join Date: December 1, 2002 Posts: 2,832	Seat lead bullets to the crimping groove and shoot them. No firearm cares what form the bullet's nose is,