45Colt 285 grain loads for Dry Creek Bullets (LAH)

[mindustrial]

Just received my 45 290-452 Dry Creek Bullets , thanks Lynn- look good.

I had been using 255 gr swc with 8 grains Unique, and have some loaded with 8.4gr Power Pistol- (haven't gotten to evaluate my Power Pistol loads yet... I got tired of the dirt Unique left behind). I hadn't considered Titegroup or HS-6, until I came across an April 2007 Handloader article (loads cut & pasted below.)

Anybody have experience with the below loads, and what are you using? Also any problems going to WLP primer instead of CCI's?

.45 Colt Load Data – 14,000 psi 285 RCBS 45-270-SAA cast, CCI-300 primers
(powder) (grains) (fps) (comment)
HS-6 10.5 893
Unique 8.0 924
Power-Pistol 8.0 915
TiteGroup 7.5 986 maximum, excellent accuracy

 

[Hammerdown77]

I've had great luck with the 270 SAA bullet and Power Pistol. I think I used 8.5 or 9, maybe 9.5. These are above the 45 Colt SAAMI pressures, though. Most of the Brian Pearce loads have shot really well for me out of my guns. I actually bump that HS-6 load up to 11.5 grains when using 255 grain bullets and it is laser-like in all my 45s.

 

[LAH]

I shoot these in a NMRBH using 8.5 grains of Unique. I've used the 45 Colt for hunting but always with the lighter 265 grain Keith so I haven't tried pushing this bullet with slower powder so I'm not much help.