She said "Of course you can be competitive with .45s" and gave her load data...

[Adirondack Jack]

A new lady shooter wanted .45s BECAUSE THE GUNS FELT BETTER (lighter, better balanced) but she was told she could never be competitive with .45s....  Then she met a two time state champ gal who said "Of course you can, here's how".

So the new shooter gal buys her .45s and some Cowboy .45 Special brass, primers, Trail Boss, and some 160 grain bullets.  When she came to buy the brass, I noticed her "curious note-taking behaviour"  (Name the movie?)  and upon inquiring, learned she'd never loaded a round in her life.

So I offered to teach her how to load, and we made a date to have a "class" and make up the ammo for her first shoot.  The "champ" had given her data which we followed, then I sent her on her way.  Well, today I didn't get to the range as I woke up feeling pretty lousy and it was 28 deg.  So this afternoon I was jonesing to burns some powder, so i decided to load up fifty rounds of this championship recipe and try it myownself.

I burned em all up at my informal woods range practice spot, and was just tickled at the accuracy, how they shot dead on POA, and how they seemed like big ole .22s.  Holy gamer batman, this load BEATS most .38s in "light" factor, yet I litelrally ran several pairs into one hole, using a bullet hole as an aiming point.

Really curious, I ran a few through the Spur Special Marlin, and yepper, even at 50 yards was able to hit a 12" rock every time.  But MY GOD they were light, so I ran back to the car, dug out the chrony and popped a few over the shooting chrony (and one INTO the screen (my fault, another story, trying to skim close to the top of the chrony because I didn't have the sky screens with me).

Before the display went to it's reward I learned that this ultra-accurate gamer load ran a 160 out of the 5.5" rugers at 520 fps average, and FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY fps out of the 16" marlin.  Holy crap!  that is light, a PF under 80 with the rifle, and 83 with the pistols.

For those wanting to try it, the recipe is a C45S case, 160 RNFP (Lee mold) Wheel weight bullet, Federal LP primer, and 3.7 grains of Trail Boss.  I seated the bullets long to facilitate feeding in the Marlin, COAL of 1.150 (crimped FIRMLY just behind the crimp groove).

It's a winning load.

(Please save the warthog diatribes for another day.  I got a 3lb coffee can of .45 Colt  250s on top 8 grains Unique here for those days I feel cro magnon).

Just passing this along BECAUSE IJAFG and it's supposed to be FUN.