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A friend and I decided to see what kind of velocity we could eek out of a .454 Casull with a light (200 grain) bullet. The only published load we found was 37 grains of 296. Winchester's load info on line has a load with a 240 grain bullet that starts at 36 grains ending around 38 grains, so we figure that we have a little wiggle room.

Care to guess how fast it'll go? I say 2,050 fps........

Keep in mind that we are doing this purely in the spirit of science!

Oh, and the test vehicle is a 7.5-inch Ruger Super Redhawk.......

Before I guess, I have one question.

Is this with a Ransom Rest and remote firing device, or will the SRH be hand held? That might make some difference in the maximum velocity I could achieve in my revolver.

This is actually published load data, and no where near the max of a Super Redhawk. Remember that we are using a super lightweight bullet. My right hand will be the designated firing device! Actually going to be testing tomorrow, so I will have data by tomorrow night.

Wanna venture a guess??

1950 FPS

2275 fps

We shall find out tomorrow morning!

1925....

I thought Dick Casull was looking for 2,000 with a 250-grain bullet. I'd be interested to see what a 200 will do.


Okie John

Winchester sells a 260 grain load that goes over 1900 fps, so I'm hoping it is within reach......but, we shall see!

Whitworth, you know I said a little over 2000 before, and I will stick with that.

Me thinks 2075fps... If I remember, a 260 cranks 1800, the 200 should push way more, but I will stick with the 2075fps..

Shoot safe...

Dont hit the chrono..

Let us know what she cranks out...

Later....

I will be testing in a couple hours and will post the results later in the day. I will try not to hit the chrongraph!

With published data, my guess is she will hit 2100 plus or minus 50.

2150

The data is coming.........just a bit tied up right now, but I will say that it fell short.......

Okay, here 'tis........

Tested three loads today through my 7.5-inch Ruger Super Redhawk .454 Casull. We set out to get maximum velocity out of a 200 grain bullet. We started at 37 grains of 296, moving up to 38 grains in half-grain increments. The weather was a very muggy mid-eighties. The recoil wasn't bad at all, but the noise was horrendous and the fireball was impressive to say the least. We fell short, but that's okay, as I wouldn't use this load for anything more serious than killing jugs of water (see accompanying video!). I have listed 3-shots of each load. Note: all cases extracted with no effort.

37 grains 296
-1882
-1905
-1902

37.5 grains 296
-1731
-1901
-1833

38 grains 296
-1819
-1859
-1908

This video clip shows the fireball:



This clip shows how effective this load is on water jugs......

COOL.. Thanks for shareing the vids...
I am thinking that you need to stretch that barrel out...

Also thanks for the load tests, good to know what to expect.

Way cool vids....

Thanks Mauserkid! This was just an exercise in "what if". It was a fun test.

rats! guessed wrong!

So did I!! But that's okay -- this is real world, backyard testing at its finest! These loads have to be the loudest I have ever shot by far! Ridiculous!