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How do 200gn bullets perform in your Henry 45 LC?

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Re: How do 200gn bullets perform in your Henry 45 LC?

Post by .38SuperMan » Tue Jan 07, 2020 9:07 pm

Got out today and only had time to shoot 23 rounds. I shot from a rest at 25 yds and placed 10 shots in a 1-1/4 in group. Very pleased!

Tomorrow I should have a lot more time and will shoot 50 &100 yds.

I’ve never been into rifles much other than collecting vintage military rifles and shooting a few matches with an M1A but this has me excited now.
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Re: How do 200gn bullets perform in your Henry 45 LC?

Post by JEBar » Tue Jan 07, 2020 9:19 pm

sounds like you are homing in on a good load .... looking forward to your ongoing reports
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Re: How do 200gn bullets perform in your Henry 45 LC?

Post by Rifletom » Wed Jan 08, 2020 10:42 am

What loads were/are you using? Sounds like a shooter. I run the same load as fortyshooter. Very accurate. Keep us posted.
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Re: How do 200gn bullets perform in your Henry 45 LC?

Post by .38SuperMan » Wed Jan 08, 2020 8:58 pm

I’m using 6.8gr 231/HP-38 under a RNFP 200gr that I get from Summers enterprises in Mississippi. In my 4-5/8” Blackhawk it’s running 671fps. I need to take the chrono tomorrow and see how it’s running. I’d guess around 725-750FPS.

I did a test with HS-6, Unique and 231 behind 200 and 250gn RNFP bullets. The 231/HP-38 behind the 200gn bullet was the most accurate and softest shooting. A very close second was a much hotter load with HS-6 and the 200gn. All were shot in my Blackhawk and not the Henry.

I’ve only tried the 231 / 200gn combo in the Henry so far. I was trying to come up with a combo that worked well in both rather than keeping two weight of bullets and doing two different loads. I want to keep it simple.

I shot a lot of 45 acp in both my 1911’s and Smith 625. I’m really partial to 200gn swc’s but I’m planning on trying the 200gn RNFP in the acp cartridges. I’ve read a lot of people have good results with them.
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Re: How do 200gn bullets perform in your Henry 45 LC?

Post by .38SuperMan » Mon Jan 13, 2020 7:30 pm

I went out Saturday and chronographed my loads and shot a couple more targets at 25-30yds. My load using 6.8gn of HP38/231 with a lead or polymer coated 200gn rnfp bullet shot from my carbine with the 16.5” barrel clocked at 896.38 FPS. It’s a bit faster than I thought.

Accuracy from a rest was great with 8 shots in just over 1”.

I had some Bayou 250gn coated rnfp bullets and loaded up 20 rounds. I used 8gn of Unique and had an average velocity of 1097.4fps out of the 16.5 barrel. Accuracy was good but the 200gn with 231 is better in my gun.
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Re: How do 200gn bullets perform in your Henry 45 LC?

Post by BigAl52 » Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:50 pm

Ive never had very good luck with a 250 and 8 grains of Unique in 45 colt
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Re: How do 200gn bullets perform in your Henry 45 LC?

Post by JEBar » Mon Jan 13, 2020 11:14 pm

BigAl52 wrote:
Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:50 pm
Ive never had very good luck with a 250 and 8 grains of Unique in 45 colt
realizing its a different world but I've had really good luck with 240 gr JHP pushed by 7.7 gr of Unique in a 44 revolver load
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Re: How do 200gn bullets perform in your Henry 45 LC?

Post by BigAl52 » Mon Jan 13, 2020 11:20 pm

Agree on the different world made that comment because that 8 gr load comes up quite frequently when Ive read about discussions of using Unique in the 45 Colt
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Re: How do 200gn bullets perform in your Henry 45 LC?

Post by JEBar » Mon Jan 13, 2020 11:27 pm

its a load I haven't fired in our Henry .... don't have any reason to believe it won't be OK because of the way it performs in our Redhawk
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Re: How do 200gn bullets perform in your Henry 45 LC?

Post by BigAl52 » Mon Jan 13, 2020 11:44 pm

Seems to me I read where you are retired so what are you waiting for shoot that in the rifle
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