Reloads for 45-110

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Are someone reloading today! For my part it was relaxing time on annealing brass and now sizing time for 45-110 Sharps on this nice Thanksgiving afternoon. I am looking for hunting with using a black powder load recipe to use for lubed 525gr. Lyman cast bullets instead of paper patched I used to shoot.


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8ball said:
Are someone reloading today! For my part it was relaxing time on annealing brass and now sizing time for 45-110 Sharps on this nice Thanksgiving afternoon. I am looking for hunting with using a black powder load recipe to use for lubed 525gr. Lyman cast bullets instead of paper patched I used to shoot.
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Good deal....:cool:
I've never tried it, but was always led to believe paper patching to be quite accurate, but a pita...

This afternoon, I'll be reloading all the 45 colt brass from my range trip yesterday
 
Bassmaster said:
Good deal....:cool:
I've never tried it, but was always led to believe paper patching to be quite accurate, but a pita...

This afternoon, I'll be reloading all the 45 colt brass from my range trip yesterday
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No, not so bad to reload but a pita on a hunt. The bullets can (and will) fell out of the brass because of gravity, very annoying. They will not stick in together contrary to Quigley's Hollywood paper patched bullets...
 
My COTW book lists some info for similar sized rounds but nothing for the 45-110.
45-100 Ballard with 500 gr bullet - 20 grs of 4759 powder
45-100 Sharps with 485 gr " -21 grs of 4759
45-120 Sharps straight with 485 Gr - 22 gr of 4759
For what its worth!
 
Willy Tincup said:
My COTW book lists some info for similar sized rounds but nothing for the 45-110.
45-100 Ballard with 500 gr bullet - 20 grs of 4759 powder
45-100 Sharps with 485 gr " -21 grs of 4759
45-120 Sharps straight with 485 Gr - 22 gr of 4759
For what its worth!
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Thanks for those recipes Willy but I am looking for black powder loaded cartridges but for light plinking I think they would fill the bill.
 
I'm shooting a 45 x 3 1/4 (45 winchester express)in a original Winchester highwall , I loaded 120 grains of 2f but found accuracy suffered, started reducing my loads
The best accuracy was a load of 80 grains, standard sci primers,corn meal filler, paper disk,lubed bore button ,topped off with 435 grain gas lead bullet , seated against the rifling, compressing the powder .250
This is what works in my rifle and I found that the velocity didn't drop off all that much average 1400 fps
 
rnrogers said:
I'm shooting a 45 x 3 1/4 (45 winchester express)in a original Winchester highwall , I loaded 120 grains of 2f but found accuracy suffered, started reducing my loads
The best accuracy was a load of 80 grains, standard sci primers,corn meal filler, paper disk,lubed bore button ,topped off with 435 grain gas lead bullet , seated against the rifling, compressing the powder .250
This is what works in my rifle and I found that the velocity didn't drop off all that much average 1400 fps
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WoW! This Winchester is a rare bird for sure, never saw a 45 Winchester Express in person. Nice nice nice rifle!

Yes I might take some measures about the seating and rifling depth. With my paper patched I compressed the powder 1/16'' 102gr of Goex Fg then seating the bullet 3/8'' deep. I'll try to start with this load and play with different thickness of carboard wads.
 
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From a 1992 SPG BP Cartridge reloading Primer by Mike Venturino and Steve Garbe, it's for a Lyman 457125 520gr. bullet, but should do as a start.
 
My friend has two 45-110's that I had a hand in building: one is a re-chambered Italian Sharps, the other built on a Remington Rolling Block. My load for both is 95 grs Goex FFg pushing a 475 gr bullet out of a custom mould by Accurate Moulds.
Loading protocol is: New brass, full length re-sized, primed with a standard primer. Newspaper wad against the primer. weighted 95 gr. charge dropped thru a 30" drop tube. Milk carton wad against the powder charge. The charge is compressed in a compression die to allow the seating of the bullet to the crimp groove. A slight taper crimp is used to remove the flare at the mouth of the case.
Subsequent re-loads used "as fired" brass, using the same protocol except when seating the bullet. The bullet was hand seated over the milk carton wad and a slight taper crimp installed to keep the bullet from falling out.
In regards to paper patching, I've patched in calibres .30, .35, 40 and 45. with varying degrees of success. Always had the best accuracy with greased bullets. BTW, my favorite BP lube is one I make using Paul Mathews' recipe for his "Premium" BP lube.
YMMMV!
 
I punch cigarette paper to protect the primer and wrapping paper for the bullets (2 layers). 16" drop tube, 95 gr. FFg compressed .015". Fibre wad dipped in molten SPG lube. About the same as you for seating and crimping. Strait sided mold is sold and I bought a new Lyman 457" diameter, 535 grain bullet mold. The new reloading adventure continues...
 
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