Thread: 45/70 Subsonic

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Whats your alloy mix? I will find one of my 1:20 tin lead 3030s with much more expansion. But them you start at .45 so you are on a winner already!

50/50 wheelweights & scrap lead with a little Tin added, thinking i will add more soft lead and see what happens, not so much for expansion, i have a lot of it and not so much wheelweights which is harder to find.

yeah nodoubt the bigger .45 has an advantage over the .30 at sub speeds . . . . bit of a ramble here . . . use to run a combo of 197grn RCBS bullets at 1050fps and 1600fps loads in my .30/30 with good results, the high speed load with cast lead bullets flattened anything it hit, hard for non-believers to imagine the power of lead bullets at modest velocity.


very happy Micky, homebrew with the caliber/rifle setup . . . . just wish i had more time to use it, hanging out for the school holidays in a couple of weeks and a chance to get seriously stuck into the Goats . . . especially at longer ranges