.45 cal needs help

[BowKnutt]

I started out shooting 100gr of pyrodex RS with powerbelts 225gr--could not get a group at all--I swapped to regular blackpowder FFF and it started grouping--would like to shoot pellets & 195 gr powewrbelt--do ya'll think they will work? If so which one pyrodex or 777 or ???
BTW I'm shooting a CVA ecilpse mangum .45 cal.

[cayugad]

Bowknutt - for me to say something will work would be impossible. By all we read, it should work, but each rifle is a puzzle unto themselves. You just have to try it to find out. I wasted hundreds of dollars on powerbelts trying them out of different rifles. Some rifles liked them, some hated them.

As for pellets, if you do not get a crud ring shooting Triple Se7en I would use that. Both the Pyrodex and T-7 pellets are approximatly equal in strength. It is just that Pyrodex fowls a little more. Still, Pyrodex is a good consistant powder. But when I shoot conicals, I like the more explosive nature of Triple Se7en as a powder.

[BowKnutt]

Thats what I'm gonna haft to do!!Being nobody in my hunting party shoots a .45--I had to be different!
I was just curious if anybody has shot pellets in a .45?
I understand why FFF powder shoots better in my gun than
FF does.I was wondering if the .45 cal pellets burnt fast
enough?

[rem 700]

Surely it has been said a million times on this forum, but still we can't convince anyone that they need to invest into thedifferent components they're interested into try and group them in their own particularrifle.

[BowKnutt]

thanks for the advice --But being on limited income(SS disability)sometimes the extra cash to try stuff ain't there--
Thanks anyway!!

[Wolfhound76]

IMO the best Powerrbelt in .45 cal is the 275 gr version. You might give it a try.

I don't know if I'd try pellets in a 45. I know I haven't in mine.

[BowKnutt]

Thanks Wolf I will check into the 275's.

[frontier gander]

195's are turkey bullets. Made for hunting turkey or smaller game such as varmits. Im going to use a 225 aerotip for mule deer this year.
Switch to loose powder. Start with 60 grains triple 7 and your 225 powerbelts, Sight in at 25 yards, move back to 50, back out to 75 and then 100 until you're on sight.

[oldrookie]

bowknutt, I have a cva but it is .50. My optima really groups better with heavier bullets. My suggestion would be 250g or 300g (if they come in .45)shockwave. If you insist on pellets, try 3-30g 777 pellets. I prefer 90g loose 2f. This should groupand then you tweak it from there.

[BowKnutt]

OK I gotta you now---Heavy bullet---loose powder---
I can handle that!!! thanks for the info all, I knowed I could get the scoop here!!!