45 ACP and lead... which powder???

[VERT]

Bullseye, Clays or Win231. Of those three I am currently running 3.9 - 4.0 grains Clays under 230 grain coated lead

 

[BluedSteel]

In a .45 ACP you could probably get by with peanut butter.

Don't try this with the chunky kind. Or a generic. Nutrition is important in a .45 ACP . . .

But seriously, Red Dot powers most of my plinking loads. It's convienent being able to use the same powder in your handguns and scatterguns. Unique does just as well and works in a nice variety of calibers as well. 231 works ok and I have used it, but it's not a versatile as Unique so I don't use it anymore.

And the INGO majority is correct: all lubed lead bullets will smoke regardless of the powder used. With the possible exception of that peanut butter thing. George Washington Carver may finally have met his match.

 

[JohnArgent]

I found it by accident during the powder shortage I was given several pounds of Green Dot for free, I trusted the source and it was unopened, Sooo I said thank you very much. When I started looking at what I reloaded, I first tried it in 20ga , very nasty dirty was not satisfied. I collect old reloading manuals so I started looking at the other cartridges I load for and stumbled on it which worked out really well since I was out of HP-38.

 

[VERT]

I found it by accident during the powder shortage I was given several pounds of Green Dot for free, I trusted the source and it was unopened, Sooo I said thank you very much. When I started looking at what I reloaded, I first tried it in 20ga , very nasty dirty was not satisfied. I collect old reloading manuals so I started looking at the other cartridges I load for and stumbled on it which worked out really well since I was out of HP-38.

Dad used to reload .38 special and .41 mag wadcutters with green dot. Dirty but shot just fine.

 

[cmann250]

150-200 rounds of 230gr LRN and GreenDot. Fairly dirty, but it cleaned up just fine.


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[JohnArgent]

Yep definitely looks like green dot, at the time figured I could deal with a little extra cleaning to keep shooting. I will have to admit tho I wish I had kept a photo of the 20ga cases I fired looked like I had been storing them in an ash box