Been fooling around starting to load some 45acp and tested some late yesterday evening.
All fed and fired fine, but were a bit hot, so I'm going to back the powder charge down a little for this next batch. I loaded all of the last batch .2 gr under the max charge so I should be able to settle on 4.5 gr of titegroup and be about where I want to be with them I think.
The hot batch from last night were sooty, and I had a few sparks coming from the ejection port when it was ejecting, so while I didn't experience any issues, I need to tone it down some. The good news is the gun handled it with ease.
I didn't chrono them though I wanted to but it was nearly dark when I got up to the range, but had no problems hitting the gongs at 25 yards which was the most important to me that they were plenty accurate enough. I did notice a little increased recoil from what I was used to as well, but reducing the charge should get me about to where I want to be with them I think.
All fed and fired fine, but were a bit hot, so I'm going to back the powder charge down a little for this next batch. I loaded all of the last batch .2 gr under the max charge so I should be able to settle on 4.5 gr of titegroup and be about where I want to be with them I think.
The hot batch from last night were sooty, and I had a few sparks coming from the ejection port when it was ejecting, so while I didn't experience any issues, I need to tone it down some. The good news is the gun handled it with ease.
I didn't chrono them though I wanted to but it was nearly dark when I got up to the range, but had no problems hitting the gongs at 25 yards which was the most important to me that they were plenty accurate enough. I did notice a little increased recoil from what I was used to as well, but reducing the charge should get me about to where I want to be with them I think.
