Load for 45 colt Montado

tomahawk · Mar 18, 2011

Looking for a good trail load for the Montado 45 colt with 250gr. oregon trail FRN. Iam in the woods alot in pacific N.W. about as far west as you can go.Black bear,couger,bobcat and of alot of 2 footed commerical mushroom pickers that think they are back in the old country.They all pack. Any help would be nice.

dougader · Mar 18, 2011

I have been meaning to work up a similar load for myself, except I intend to use a hardcast 265 grain wfngc bullet from Beartooth bullets in Idaho.

I have loaded to 13 and 13.5 grains of (Hercules, not Alliant) Blue Dot under a Speer Gold Dot HP. 13 grains is max for the Speer 260 grain jhp in the Speer 14 reloading manual. Standard primers ONLY.

Its about as hot as I would ever go in a small framed 45 Colt. It makes the little Montado jump, but it's still controllable and the revolver handles it well.

I haven't fired it over the sky screens from the Montado, but a 6-shot string in a 4-inch S&W 625 mt Gun averaged 1,008 fps with the 250 GDHP.

I think you could work up a similar load with your 250 grain lead bullet.

J Miller · Mar 18, 2011

9.0grs of Unique. A good stout but not high pressure load.
I'd suggest a 255-265gr Keith SWC rather than the FRN.

Joe

WESHOOT2 · Mar 19, 2011

And I suggest HS6.

tek4260 · Mar 19, 2011

WESHOOT2 said:
And I suggest HS6.

+1

Look at level 2 loads here (page 12)

http://www.riflemagazine.com/magazine/PDF/HL%20246partial.pdf

Rclark · Mar 19, 2011

8.5g/9.0g of Unique (1020fps) under SWC or RNFP. One of my guns prefers 20g of IMR 4227 (879fps average). You may have to search for the Powder/Bullet combination that works in 'your' revolver. For example, the HS-6 powder did not shoot well in one of my revolvers for every level of charge I tried.