Question..........Bullseye, Unique or Blue Dot.........

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I have just loaded 1000 45 ACP and I used bullseye with a Campro 230 JHP, I am not an expert on the ACP round and have never loaded for it before and my many books gave loads for all three of these powders. I am shooting a couple 1911 type pistols in the ACP and am looking at another. I chose Bullseye for a couple reasons which are theoretical at best, one; bullseye has always given good accuracy in a wide range of handgun cartridges with light to midrange loads. Two; I thought the faster powder may be better for working the action on these semi auto pistols and possibly less violent on slide action due to shorter pressure curves (I did say theoretical, right?) I also had exactly 1 pound and, of course, one gets more loads per pound with bullseye than the other two.
So did I screw up and should have used one of the other two or did I guess correct. I'm not interested in any other powders or opinions recommending other powders, as I don't have any Win 231 or what ever and I'm not likely to find any, so discussion of them is pointless.

What say you 45 ACP aficionados...............?
 
No you did great. Other problem is where the hell you find bullseye. Ah second guess, Niagara Fall has frozen so you used the old prohibitionist route to smuggle - Nice
 
Good decision I stadardized on Bullseye for my 45 ACP 38 Spc and 9mm to simplify my powder management / purchases and concentrate on target shooting for them..

I'm happy with it although I wish I had a little more of it..
 
Good luck finding any of these powders in Canada. Any pistol powder from Alliant is virtually unobtainable, unless you find something at a gun show. My last Unique I found was from a gun show and was made in 2009.
Unique is my favorite in 9 mm with cast bullet loads after extensive testing. Was better than either 231 or Bullseye in 3 of my 4 9mm's. Have not tried Blue Dot, but would like to in my Beretta CX-4 carbine as the longer barrel would make better use of this slower burning powder.
 
the 2 most common calibre's i seem to read bullseye being used in is 45acp and 38spl. i only use bullseye in 38spl and only for 148gr HBWC's, 45acp gets everything else, tigthgroup, w231, etc etc. if bullseye was as common as the others i would have used it more, but it wasn't and sure as hell isn't now so again only 38spl 148gr for bullseye.
 
Very good choice if you wanted max accuracy at mild to medium velocity. Some will chime in and say Bullseye is the best choice.

Only downside to Bullseye is that the powder charge is small and you can double charge with it.

Unique is very good if you wanted medium to hot loads. Blue Dot is only appropriate if you want max velocity (or if you want max muzzle flash).
 
Ya Ganderite, I also just read an article that said the ACP was at it's best around 800-825 fps with good accuracy and reliable functioning in virtually all 45s, especially any of the 1911 platform. With Blue Dot it runs up to about 950 with max loads so I figured that probably wasn't the best for this application, so it was a toss up between the BE and Unique but I have traditionally gotten better mid range load accuracy from BE and better accuracy at max or near max with Unique. I played a bit with a 44 special and the 45 LC and these 2 powders back a ways........
 
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