Author Topic: Help Quick! Factory hunting ammo for a 45 colt SAA???? (Read 1265 times)

Medbill · « **on:** November 15, 2005, 04:26:12 PM »

Hey Guys,

I know this is running down to the wire but I only reload bpcr rounds and have no experience with smokeless or handgun reloading and no time to get into it now. What will work in my pistol without blowing it up?

Need some easy to find over the counter factory ammo or Whitetails.

Thanks much,

Billy

poncaguy · « **Reply #1 on:** November 16, 2005, 02:56:31 AM »

If you had a Ruger, I would suggest Corbon 45 +P 300 grain.........

Redhawk1 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 16, 2005, 03:41:07 AM »

It would be nice to know the type of gun you are using. Not much in factory ammo for deer hunting loads.

Lone Star · « **Reply #3 on:** November 16, 2005, 04:05:11 AM »

Since the thread title says SSA, I assume that you are shooting a Colt or a Colt clone. The two best 'factory' loads for those actions are the Federal 225 SWCHP at 900 fps and the Winchester 225 STHP at 920 fps. Neither is particularly powerful, but they are safe in your revolver and will work on deer for lung shots at 50 yards or under. I'm not certain if there is much to choose between them, whichever is available will work if you place the bullet correctly.

The Corbon stuff is both difficult to find in many areas, and too powerful for the SSAs anyway. BuffaloBore offers some hot .45LC ammunition which meets SAAMI specs yet is safe in post-war SAAs in good condition.
http://www.buffalobore.com/ammunition/default.htm#low45
The 255 GC bullet at 1000 fps would be my choice. It too is hard to find though....

Medbill · « **Reply #4 on:** November 16, 2005, 08:13:16 AM »

Sorry I assumed a SAA is a Colt or copy. I am shooting a 2nd Gen Colt Single Action Army, 7 1/2" barrel and all shots with be under 50 yards.

Thanks much for the advice, really appreciate it!

Billy

Redhawk1 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 16, 2005, 09:17:17 AM »

Quote from: Medbill

Sorry I assumed a SAA is a Colt or copy. I am shooting a 2nd Gen Colt Single Action Army, 7 1/2" barrel and all shots with be under 50 yards.

Thanks much for the advice, really appreciate it!

Billy

My fault, I missed the SSA. but Lone Star has the right information you need.

Castaway · « **Reply #6 on:** November 16, 2005, 09:37:28 AM »

Since you're a BP guy, I'd load up, not BP, but Triple Seven. You should top 1,000 f/s with a 255 grain bullet and still be safe with your pressure. You won't find any standard Colt loading that will get you that close.

Redhawk1 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 16, 2005, 09:49:20 AM »

Quote from: Castaway

Since you're a BP guy, I'd load up, not BP, but Triple Seven. You should top 1,000 f/s with a 255 grain bullet and still be safe with your pressure. You won't find any standard Colt loading that will get you that close.

Not that sounds like a good idea. I never thought about that one.

Castaway · « **Reply #8 on:** December 07, 2005, 12:44:46 AM »

Took some 45 Colts to the range Sunday, loaded with 2.5 cc's of 777 under a 255 grain, RNFP. Ran it over a crony and was getting 1028 f/s.

Greeenriver · « **Reply #9 on:** December 09, 2005, 02:03:39 PM »

Quote from: Castaway

Took some 45 Colts to the range Sunday, loaded with 2.5 cc's of 777 under a 255 grain, RNFP. Ran it over a crony and was getting 1028 f/s.

What I've been saying for a long time, LOL. Anything that load won't kill, you shouldn't be making mad in the first place!!! I've been using 2.2 or 2.5cc's of APP under a 200grn RNFP for Deer for a few years now, and have never recovered a bullet from one yet. 5&1/2in SAA out to about 70yds, and from my 92 carbine it's good out to about 150yds.

Shot Placement, Shot Placement, Shot Placement. That's the inportent thing. Do your part and the Deer is meat on the table.

Greeenriver

willysjeep134 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 11, 2005, 10:32:30 AM »

Know what that 200 grain load chronys? I have a cap and ball .44 that takes a 200 grain conical. I shoot 30 grains of Pyrodex P in it. I was thinking out of that 12 inch barrel it might be up to taking a deer.

Greeenriver · « **Reply #11 on:** December 11, 2005, 03:33:32 PM »

Willysjeep 134, no, I've never bothered to run it over the PACT. It sure does the job at fairly short ranges for me. It's down in the low 20's here now so I won't have the PACT set up probibly till spring, but when I do, I'll run a few over it and see just what they do.

I would think that your C&B with a 12in bbl should do OK at fairly short ranges if you can place the bullet EXACTLY where you want it. I take ONLY shots that will break the back or neck, standing shots only, and usualy try to hit them just at the top of the frt shoulder in the back bone. I realy am too old to have to track deer and to lazy to have to drag them, so I shoot from a perminat blind on private property where I can drive my Quad right to them.

I don't shoot moveing deer at all any more. And I don't shoot deer if I don't have a place to rest my arms on. After my little stroke and then the heart attacks, I'm too shaky to shoot without a rest.

At the blind I hunt from and the ranges I shoot from, if it was legal I could shoot most of my deer with a good 22lr pistol, but Ilike the 45. I have thought about taking one with my 32H&R Mag with the Federal JHP's, just to say I done it once, but probibly won't.

This last couple years it's gotten to be more work than fun to hunt, and this year I only went out for about 3 hours the first day, didn't see anything and couldn't work up the ambition to go again. I've been thinking of giving it up completly as it just ain't the fun it was before the stroke and heart attacks. Maybe I'll feel diferently next year.

I hopeI do. I used to live for the Deer season. It was the most fun time of the year for me. But age and illness has taken much of the fun out of it any more.

Greeenriver