What you do is melt the lead core out of 230 gr hardball bullets and replace the lead with epoxy. the resulting bullet weighs 60 grs. You have to use so much Alliant Bullseye powder, just to work the slide with such a lw bullet, that the charge amount scares a lot of guys halfway to death :-) Hint, it's over 10 grs.
What you do is melt the lead core out of 230 gr hardball bullets and replace the lead with epoxy. the resulting bullet weighs 60 grs. You have to use so much Alliant Bullseye powder, just to work the slide with such a lw bullet, that the charge amount scares a lot of guys halfway to death :-) Hint, it's over 10 grs.
How much is George paying you to post stupid stuff here?
the ignorant are always shooting off their mouths. you' have no idea. 8 grs of BE wont even cycle the slide, even on the Officer's ACP These super lw bullets get going so fast and easy that no other powder has enough "octaine" to work the slide, at any charge amount, even compressed charges.
There was like this super awesome unbelievable crazy YouTube video about a guy that took a 12-gauge shotgun shell and poured out all of the lead shot... then put in an AA battery instead.
Hey lonee, you can get even more speed with a wad of tinfoil instead of your epoxy bullet! And you don't even have to buy bullets to make 'em! Wowsers, huh?
that's a wussy load, actually. Mag Safe's .45 ammo was hotter than that, and their cop-only SWAT .45 load was a lot hotter than that. PPS had a 100 gr solid copper hp at 2000 fps in the late 70's. It would be completely safe in today's fully-supported barrels.
I've considered pulling .22 bullets and trying that powder. It's probably faster burning. with tapered bores, no rifling for the first inch or so, and a big hollow base cavity, the skirts of the hollowbase open out to seal the bore, the bullet starts easily, with no rifling resistance, the final 2.5" of rifling gives adequate accuracy and the skirts at the base of the bullet swage down to take the rifling. Probably get 60 grs to 2400 fps in a 5" 1911, with 2" of free bore.