Pop can tipping with 45 colt, light load help?

[mstake]

a friend of mine just purchased a 45 colt blackhawk 7.5 barrel and he has asked me to reload some plinkers for it. he wants something in the 180gr to 200gr range to plink with. i have a good supply of unique powder. will this work for a plinker load? any thoughts on bullets. i am thinking cast but not sure with manufacture to go with.

[22popnsplat]

In my rugers I have never gotten good accuracy with 200 grain bullets from any of my 3 revolvers chambered for the 45 colt , My results start getting good with a 250 grain bullet . I have found that loads intended for the ruger and T/Cs  and cheap cast bullets the lube on the bullets dosent work very well and I get leading , I have relubed some with the lee lube with good success .  Try a 255 grain bullet and a starting load of 6.0 grains of Unique , The max is 8.5 until you get into the ruger and T/C loads .

[Lloyd Smale]

never had good luck with light bullets either

[Prof. Fuller Bullspit]

I get acceptable accuracy with 200 grain bullets, but I don't use Unique in these loads. I get much better accuracy with 250 grain bullets and I often use Unique for these loads.

[sureshot2040]

try 7 grains of unique behind a 230 grain bullet
my cousin just bought a stainless blackhawk with a 7 1/2 barrel
last saturday he ripped a box lid edgeways in half from a sandbag at 25 yards, first shot
i use 7 grains of unique behind bullets from 200 to 300 grains.
the little birdshead vaquero with 3 3/4 inch barrel really likes the big 300 grain bullets. i hit a shotgun shell at 25 yards with it
the only gripe i have with unique is its dirty
sureshot

[45LCshoooter]

I have to agree on the 230 grain bullets, they work pretty well for me too. Can't recommend a load because i shoot plinker loads in the ACP cylinder with Bullseye.

[Steve P]

I use 8.0 gr Unique with my 245 cast bullets.  Mild but very accurate.

Good Luck,

Steve  

[West Creek Charlie]

Well - I have had some good luck with 200 gain bullets.

One of my old favorited was a 200 rnfp over 6.7 grain of 231 for 800 fps from a 5.5" colt- worked pretty good with very mild leading. I expect the leading was due to hard bullets and poor lube found on your typical storebought hardcast. My guess is that these will be leadfree with wheeleights and good lube.

My favorite plinking load is 5.6 grain of Red Dot under a 250 LBT WFN lubed with Felix Lube. The 200 grain loads went almost excatly where I pointed but the LBT bullets shoot excatly where I point'em.

The other guys are in fact right - the 250 shoot more accurately thant the 200's but the 200's make for real nice easy recoil plinkers vs the 250. I was not dissapointed in my 200 grain loads at all other than the minor leading.

With any light load you are going to get some blowback on the cases especially if you use starline brass.

I also shoot the 200's over 5.3 grain of red dot for my cowboy load for 700 fps. This load is not as accurate as the 231 load but the recoil is milder and makes for fast shootin real easy. The only time I use the 200 grain bullets is for CASS competetion. I practice with the 250 WFN. One of these days I'll get around to getting a 200 rnfp mold and try them with wheelweights and felix lube to see if the leading goes away.