Gentlemen:

You might want to check out the Ruger Website http://www.ruger-firearms.com/Firearms/News-11-11-2004F.html

Ruger's "New Vaquero" with a smaller frame/cylinder will probably throw a monkey wrench into the future publishing of "heavy" .45 Colt loading data.

Ralph

Guess I'll be hanging on to my old Vaquero then.

I KNOW it'll handle the heavy loads.

;)

Drifter

Hi Drifter what year was your Vaquero maid? Mine was born 1998 and i wonder if it can handle the hot loads can i use 350gr bullits

Hi Drifter what year was your Vaquero maid? Mine was born 1998 and i wonder if it can handle the hot loads can i use 350gr bullits

That's the 'old' vaquero, and it's good for the published 30,000CUP loads.

Thanks MikeG! In sweden it is illegal to hunt with handguns but it is fun to shott bottles filied with water. Do you have any sugestion on a explosiv load for my plicking. Sorry for my bad english hopes you understand me anyway.

Mike B,

You speak better English than I do Swedish!! :)

Welcome to the board.

I'll dig up my manual and find some .45 Colt loads for you.

Lobo in West Virginia

Hi El Lobo maybe you have right in English vs Swedish :-)

I will be very happy if you did find som nice hot loads for me and my gun.

The Hodgdon manual is pretty good. Can you get a copy over there? Here's the same data, on-line, for the Blackhawks, but the only powder for the light bullets is Lil'Gun. What can you get?

http://www.hodgdon.com/data/pistol/45coltlil.php

I'd go with the fastest 240/250gr. hollow-point load you can find, just for entertainment purposes as you describe.

Thanks MikeG
We Have Norma and vihtavouri powder here but i will look after Hogdon. if i can find a load lets say for an example your 240gr with Hogdon LIL 27gr powder and switch the 240 bullit to a 180gr does the preasure go over 29200cup or does it go under it?. Do you understand my wonders? ;-) it is just an example..
:-)

Lighter bullet should be less pressure with the same charge weight.

If you have a chronograph, that will help a lot to figure out what is going on, pressure-wise.

I see thanks lot MickeG and the rest of you. :-)

I like this shooters Forum a lot