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45 Colt loaded with 2 round balls


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No......I'm not advocating this for a CAS match!

I was curious after a friend gave me some .45 caliber round balls.

I loaded 2 of the .451 diameter round balls in a .45 Colt case using a low end powder load.

I fired them from a 7.5" barreled Ruger Blackhawk at about 50 feet.

Those round balls impacted about 3 to 4 inches from each other from each shot.

I will load some more!!!

For what it's worth!

;)

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Careful pard, that's almost 300 gr out of a case with reduced volume. Just sayin ....

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I read somewhere about loading 3 balls in a 45-70 case. Never tried it.

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I've done the same with 45 ACP. Shot a few but lost interest and quit.

Didn't we just talk about that at the Pass?

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This has been done many times and in many ways ,there used to be a couple of factories that sold these double ball loads for

defence use ...

 

 

Jabez Cowboy

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I loaded some single 451 ball in C45S cases to try to make gamer loads. They didn't shoot very accurate. I suspect there wasn't enough bearing surface to get grip on rifling. I didn't try them in my Marlin because I figured they would turtle.

 

I thought maybe a larger ball and maybe run them through a Lee sizing die to produce a waistband would help but I didn't have a larger mold. Besides, if I went to that much trouble to cast and size, I may as well make bullets.

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Several years ago Remington ( I think) loaded 2 balls in a 38sp.

 

They shot center mass and at 10-15 yards impacted about 1-2 inch apart, and at 25 was still about 3"

Yep, and they were labeled "Law Enforcement Only". I found a box on close-out in a rural hardware store about 30 years ago. Still have a few left in the box.

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