Best 45acp powder , with specific requirements

AA#7 works great in 10mm not so much in .45ACP #5 is good in 45 but 6.0gr of 231 under a 200gr. plated bullet leaves my barrel at 850fps. Very accurate and pleasant to shoot so I don't bother playin around with my ACP anymore. Do all my experimenting in 10mm, .44mag, ,357mag and .45 Colt and even those are getting somewhat narrowed down.
Think I need a .38 Super just to make life interesting again.:D
 
Well this thread got raised from the dead . So I'll update . I never did buy any VV powders which I still want to do at some point . I did buy 3lbs of HP-38 and liked that so I later bought a 4lb jug of Win 231 . I still have 1.3lbs of the hp-38 . Pushing WSF pretty hard-ish almost gives me what I want . I like the HS-6 but have never been comfortable enough to push it hard enough to get rid of the sooty cases but it is a good powder with heavy for caliber/cartridge bullets . Over all I think my two best powders are Titegroup and HP-38/231 with WSF and HS-6 coming in second .
 
I've read a handful of 45 ACP threads recently and the most consistent refomendation is Win 231/HP38. I've had success with Bullseye, but probably should load up a bunch of HP38 loads just to compare the 2. Most of my shooting is 200 grn SWCs with charges slightly above minimum loads.
 
900 fps with a 230gr bullet out of a XD compact is not fun to shoot at all.
Leaning towards unrealistic.

I'm running 185s over a charge of Red Dot to get 900 fps from my neighbors XDS. Only reason i'm pushing them that hard is to ensure expansion of the hollow points he's carrying.
 
900 fps with a 230gr bullet out of a XD compact is not fun to shoot at all.
Leaning towards unrealistic.
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Yep we worked that out earlier in the thread , not sure if you noticed but this thread is a year and a half old . I just bought the grip extensions for the XD , pretty much a full grip now and much better to shoot . It was a two finger hold with the pinky hanging there before that . It does have a 4" barrel though .
 
Have enjoyed good results with VV 310. Routinely use a 230 grn jacketed RN. Lighter bullets will also work well with this fast burning powder.
 
My go to powder for virtually all of my handgun reloading is WW 231.
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Yep, but my #1 criteria is accuracy and minimal wear and tear on the gun. For that Win 231/HP38 (same powder with different labels) does nicely.

I shoot 200 gr LSWC's almost exclusively through my .45's, so I'm used to soot, and lubricant over most of the gun. I clean after a box of 50, but have run the gun up to 100 rounds without scrubbing it out.

But I'd opine, as some others here have said, that a clean burning load, that gives gilt edged accuracy, and high muzzle velocity is nigh unto impossible. With hard ball, jacketed bullets, you eliminate some of the sludge, but powder residue and primer dust will still be present....so be it...if the accuracy is there (sub-2" gps at 25 yds from a rest), I'm more than happy.

BTW, I'm not impressed with bright shinny brass, only with loads that cluster in tight little groups, and I know that the gun does not function any better with shinny cases.

Best Regards, Rod
 
OK, so the thread is old but your still here so: I use vvN340 in 9mm, 40, 45 exclusively. It does all that stuff you wanted including the velocity.

vvN105 is also magical in 45 Auto Rim, 45 Colt, 454 Casull, 357 SIG, etc....

I don't like the price but a 4 pound jug lasts for a while.
 
For clean burning light target loads Trail Boss will do it. No powder burns cleaner for low pressure loads. No soot at all. It does give up velocity though. Hi Skor 800x with hot running JHP loads is pretty clean running. Though it meters poorly. I hand weigh the loads with it. I hardly use it. I have 3/4 of a pound left from 2009.
 
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