RanchRoper's Reloading Ruminations

[RanchRoper]

Anybody use Titegroup powder? I see it in the local store. Says 45 Colt on bottle. Results?

[RanchRoper]

Sellier & Bellot brass is tricky to seat a primer. Very tight. Gotta check carefully.

[Rifletom]

Sellier & Bellot brass is tricky to seat a primer. Very tight. Gotta check carefully.

RR, I found the same issue with S&B .45acp brass; so be watchful. Titegroup, I am not familiar with it in .45 Colt. I think your loads right now are pretty good. Unique and Universal are two mighty fine powders for the .45 Colt.

[RanchRoper]

I loaded 20 rounds of 200 gr lead with 7.0 gn of powder. 6.4 is start load I have used so far and 8.8 gn is max. Will try them tomorrow.

[clovishound]

Anybody use Titegroup powder? I see it in the local store. Says 45 Colt on bottle. Results?

Titegroup is a good powder in many ways, but I much prefer something more in the middle of the burn speed group. Universal is my current favorite, if I can't use Trailboss. It does well with a wide variety of calibers and bullet types, and unlike Unique, it meters well. I used Titegroup for plated bullets, and got very poor accuracy. I tried them with Universal, and the accuracy was substantially better. One reason for that, I believe, is that with Universal cast and jacketed data often overlap quite a bit.

Titegroup often has a narrow window between start and max loads, and it can be very unforgiving of moderately over max loads. From what I have read pressures tend to spike quickly. Add to this the fact that it is a dense powder, making it easy to load an accidental double throw.

Trailboss is a great powder, if you are loading cast, or coated cast in low pressure calibers. It would be almost impossible for me to overload a .45 ACP cartridge using the 200 grain SWCs I prefer. Anything much over max and there would be no room for the bullet. A double throw will spill powder all over the press. It's not a good powder, if you want velocity, and is not recommended for plated, jacketed, or high pressure rounds.

[RanchRoper]

Great info. Thanks.

[RanchRoper]

Loved shooting my 200 gr bullet load of 7.0 gn of Universal today. Great fun to shoot. Very punchy but like shooting a .22. I will load many many of these....

[Rifletom]

Hmmm, I just happen to have some Universal. Well.......

[RanchRoper]

Hmmm, I just happen to have some Universal. Well.......

Try a few rounds and let me know what you think. I want to shoot them in my revolver.

[ESquared]

Did 150 rounds of 250 Gr RNFP (Coated) and 8.0 grains of Unique (Tom's recipe, I think!). 100 more prepped and primed and ready to go.

Gotta move on to some 357 next, though.

It's fun, isn't it?