I use the 240 grain Hornady XTP in my .44 Mag Carbine, and the 300 grain XTP in my .44 Mag Super Redhawk. After many years and many deer, I have no complaints.
Some folks make a living due to that common manufacturing fault. [/i] See, e.g.,Many Ruger .45's have too small chamber throats that will work ok with jacketed but not so good with cast. The chamber throats should be about .002" larger that groove diameter for the best cast performance.
James is right most of the newer Ruger 45 throats will be tight around .4505-.4510, OK for jacketed bullets not so good for cast. The older Ruger 45 colts say from the 70's through the early 90's tended to have too large of throats. I have a 45BH from the late 70's that had throats running .4545-.455. I ended up shipping it back to Ruger several years ago and had them install a new cylinder with the tighter throats, then I took a wooden dowel and made a simple hone out of it and opened them up too .4525 and man does it shoot! The groove diameter of the Ruger 45BH barrels run consistently at .451 of the ones I've slugged! Better too have the newer ones as it is easier too open throats then vise versa. :wink:TexNekkid said:Some folks make a living due to that common manufacturing fault. [/i] See, e.g.,Many Ruger .45's have too small chamber throats that will work ok with jacketed but not so good with cast. The chamber throats should be about .002" larger that groove diameter for the best cast performance.
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