Black Powder Wild Bunch

[Abilene]

Hey what's with all the posts from Abilene all of a sudden?  Heheh, I ran out of 45acp ammo a couple years back and the reloader I used for that was slow and 90 miles away most of the time (in the middle of a long slow move) but I finally got my 550 that is here set up for that and loaded 1000 rounds, so I'll be shooting some more WB even though I'm not very good (fairly accurate but terrible at magazine changes and don't practice 😊).  So I was getting caught up on old posts.  Anyway, to the subject at hand, we had a 4 stage WB side match at the Texican Rangers Comancheria Days / Texas State SASS match last weekend, and I got a video of Whiskey Kid shooting BP.  He shoots APP in his rifle but real BP in the pistol.  Not sure about shotgun.  He said the 1911 runs well but he cleans the chamber between stages.  He did pretty well, too, coming in 9th out of 63 shooters.  Kid Rich was on another posse, so I'm not sure if he was shooting BP as well.  

 

[El Chapo]

That is awesome.

[Sedalia Dave]

I did a test match with my 1911. Loaded Triple 7 to the base of a 230 grain Hi-Tek coated bullet. Shot a 6 stage WB-Lite match (60 rounds) with nary a problem and no cleaning of the barrel or chamber between stages.  

[El Chapo]

14 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

I did a test match with my 1911. Loaded Triple 7 to the base of a 230 grain Hi-Tek coated bullet. Shot a 6 stage WB-Lite match (60 rounds) with nary a problem and no cleaning of the barrel or chamber between stages.  

How was the smoke?

[Sedalia Dave]

On 4/18/2025 at 1:00 PM, El Chapo said:

How was the smoke?

Easily made the smoke standard.  Without compression, a 45 ACP case will hold about 1.1 cc of powder when using a 230 grain bullet.