Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Speer 300 grain uchp #2482 "Plinker" load for deer

Anyone use this bullet (Speer 300 grain uchp #2482) in their 45-70 for deer?
I can't find any Remington 300 grain hollow points so i am going to work up a load, with H4895. I am going to use their rule of 60% and down load it to about 1500 fps. I am getting tired of recoil and at the ranges I hunt (100 yards or less) I can give up some trajectory.

I have just plinked with them over 5744, not 4895. Lyman's Reloading Manual data for the Marlin says that 56.0gr of 4895 is the BOTTOM load and that will yield ~1700fps.

28.5gr - 32.0 gr of 5744 will get you between 1290fps & 1421fps per the same manual.

BTW, that manual says that the most accurate load is 48.0 gr of 3031 for ~1660fps.

The 5744 and 3031 data I mention is in the .45-70 data for 1873 Springfields.

Ed

I'm not too sure that the Speer will open reliably starting at 1500 fps. Even started out at 1700 the recoil will be significantly less than full power 300 grain loads. The Speer Uni-Cor is a plenty tough bullet designed to hold up and penetrate nearly as well as the old Nosler Partition did - and you don't get much better than that in the 45-70 for most hunting uses.

I didn't want to say it, but that (expansion) was a concern I had when I answered his post in "Big Bore levers". But, it is a .45!

If he did not already have the bullets or was determined to use the Unicor. I would suggest an LBT hardcast of 350 grains.