Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Big Bore Handguns, anyone?

Recently I did a work up of some .45 Colt loads that were heavier than the all around loads of 270 grain at 900 FPS (from a 4&5/8ths" barrel).

I ended up finding the sweet spot with a 320 grain wide nose flat point at 1155. They shot extremely small groups and I saw no need to push them faster. I had made some loads that were quite a bit faster, but the groups were not nearly as good and saw no point, since it is not likely that they are going to perform any better in terms of terminal ballistics.