Clays powder

[dlmeadows]

So who all uses clays powder to push their 45s? I have been using titegroup for a while but heard some good things about Clays and decided to give it a try. Hoping that 3.8grns gets me 750 fps pushing a 230 gr lrn.

[jaysouth]

I am about half way into a jug of Clays that I reload .45 ACP 200 gr. SWCs with. It is very clean and my load of 3.8 grs Clays has very little recoil but I do use a 14 pound spring in my Les Baer. The 16 pound spring seems to work OK in a Colt and a Norinco custom. I have no idea of what the velocity is. It cycles my guns and pushes a bullet through a paper target at 25 yards(when I am having a good enough day to see that far).

It has an exponential pressure curve, so stick to published loads.

[dlmeadows]

4.0 is supposed to give me 790 fps. I have to be at least at 718 fps to be IDPA legal for CDP. I was just getting so much crud from titegroup, I wanted to try something to see if it would run cleaner and hopefully a tad less smoke lol

[Dolomite_supafly]

I have ran above published data but you need to work up. It is a very miserly powder but be careful because it uses such a small amount double charges might go unnoticed.

Dolomite

[dlmeadows]

I'm used to the small powder amount I was running 4.1 grns of titegroup and visually it looked like it was less than the Clays.

[dlmeadows]

Worked up my load. 3.6grns of Clays with a 230gr cast round nose gives me 730-740 fps. Which makes me IDPA legal and the accuracy is outstanding. Freehand at 20yds Ishot a 6 shot group of about an inch and a half. That's extremely good for my sub par shooting ability lol.