Does anyone here have experience reloading 165g JHP for the 45 ACP? With ammo the way things are, a friend came across some 165g JHPs that he wanted me to load for him. I've loaded 185g with 231 powder before, but I can't seem to find any references to loading something as light as 165g. Someone came out with a commercial 165g load (Hornady maybe) so I know it can be done. I'm sure all you 230g fans are asking yourselves - Why would he want to?
Given the difficulty in finding reloading components, I understand. I have been looking for Varget for my .223 since the beginning of the year. Down to my last pound and the groundhogs are getting bold.
I feel your pain. I have bought up every box of projectiles and jug of powder I can find....and then there is little to no data out there for it Anyway, Not my loads but here is the closest thing I can find to 165gr in a 45. This is from: http://data.hodgdon.com/cartridge_load.asp 155 GR. CAST LSWC IMR 800-X .451" 1.230" 7.8 1019 13,600 CUP 8.5 1117 17,000 CUP 155 GR. CAST LSWC IMR SR 4756 .451" 1.230" 8.2 996 13,100 CUP 8.8 1108 17,200 CUP 155 GR. CAST LSWC Hodgdon HS-6 .451" 1.230" 9.0 988 12,000 CUP 10.0 1126 16,300 CUP 155 GR. CAST LSWC Winchester AutoComp .451" 1.230" 7.6 1006 13,700 CUP 8.2 1079 16,600 CUP 155 GR. CAST LSWC Hodgdon Universal .451" 1.230" 6.5 1015 13,000 CUP 7.0 1135 16,700 CUP 155 GR. CAST LSWC Winchester WSF .451" 1.230" 7.1 934 11,600 CUP 7.9 1064 15,900 CUP 155 GR. CAST LSWC Winchester 231 .451" 1.230" 6.0 998 13,400 CUP 6.7 1112 17,100 CUP 155 GR. CAST LSWC Hodgdon HP-38 .451" 1.230" 6.0 998 13,400 CUP 6.7 1112 17,100 CUP 155 GR. CAST LSWC IMR SR 7625 .451" 1.230" 7.0 941 11,800 CUP 7.7 1056 16,100 CUP 155 GR. CAST LSWC IMR PB .451" 1.230" 5.8 989 13,600 CUP 6.5 1095 17,500 CUP 155 GR. CAST LSWC Winchester WST .451" 1.230" 4.9 919 13,100 CUP 5.4 1017 16,700 CUP 155 GR. CAST LSWC Hodgdon Titegroup .451" 1.230" 5.7 1039 14,300 CUP 6.2 1132 17,000 CUP 155 GR. CAST LSWC IMR 700-X .451" 1.230" 5.4 1004 13,500 CUP 6.0 1076 16,400 CUP 155 GR. CAST LSWC Hodgdon Clays .451" 1.230" 4.9 1040 16,100 CUP 5.2 1082 17,700 CUP 155 GR. CAST LSWC Hodgdon Titewad .451" 1.230" 4.6 1015 15,800 PSI 5.0 1082 18,800 PSI
I just got around to checking my books and nothing. Who made the bullets? Their website might have a loading table for them.
I finally got around to loading and testing the 165g JHP for my friend. The bag of bullets he gave me had no manufacturer on it so I don't know who made them, but they look pretty nice. I was originally going to load this for him with "231" powder. However, he was running low on "231" and wanted to keep it for other uses, but he had a lot of "Blue Dot" left. While not the ideal powder I would use for this load (I've used it in 40, 44 and heavy 45) 185g data showed a range of around 7.5 - 10g. I didn't want to waste a lot of bullets working up the load, so I just started with a half grain spread from 8.5 - 10.5g. The "upper amounts" of Blue Dot filled the cases nicely giving an uncompressed full load. They all seemed to shoot fine without any signs of pressure issues, accuracy was all about the same at short 25' range. I loaded up one more with 11g and tried that. It also did not show any signs of pressure issues, but did fly a little left. I could try and pinpoint the load a little better with a 0.1g spread around 10.5g, but in the interest of conserving bullets I think I'm going to just go with the 10.5g. These are probably just going to be target plinkers anyway ............... his home/concealed carry load is some vintage Black Talons!
