Accurate 230 S

[Ben]

This is the Accurate 230 S
Weighing 230 grains.
I'm loading for a 45 ACP automatic pistol.

This is an interesting bullet in that it offers
a crimp groove and cast at .454".

Obviously the bullet could serve " Triple duty"
in the 45 ACP, the 45 Colt and the 45 Auto Rim also.

I'm sizing to .4515" for my auto.
Anxious to try these out.

 

[Brad]

What load? Should work quite well.

 

[Ben]

4.5 B'Eye

 

[Brad]

Should be a winner.

 

[Ben]

Seems to hit the throat and feel smoothly.

Ben

 

[quicksylver]

Huuuuum...looks like it could be a winner in the 46 Colt as well...nice nose profile..

 

[fiver]

that looks similar to the 225 rnfp I use in all 3 guns.
the AR case and that boolit are almost too much length in the 624.
but it sure does well in the acp and the 45 colt guns too.

 

[Ian]

Huuuuum...looks like it could be a winner in the 46 Colt as well...nice nose profile..

That's funny and sadly true. I actually have a .45 Colt revolver, an 1872 Open Top clone by Uberti/Stoeger. The chambers are actually quite snug and throats are right at .452". None of the brass fired in my other five revolvers will come close to chambering in it. Since the barrel isn't threaded, it has no thread choke. Now, if the people running the rifling machine had bothered to clamp the barrel anywhere close to straight in the fixture, it would be the perfect little revolver, but they didn't, and it has no lands on one side of the barrel near the muzzle, and shoots six inches to that side at 15 yards. Sometimes I just want to choke people. Seems like a person would have to buy about 200 revolvers and keep the one or two out of the lot that accidentally happened to be made somewhere near right. Speaking of that, my Ruger NV came new to me in the box as what I'd deem a 44.5-40. Cylinder throats were between .449 and .451, and the chambers are so large that I have to neck-size brass to keep it from splitting in two or three reloads. I reamed the throats, but that didn't fix the whole problem. Loaded brass does look like a BP bottleneck cartridge due to the bulged body and neck sized portion.