.45 acp projectiles. 185gr

[Detour71]

Came across these in a box of my dad's old reloading stuff. Can't seem to find the mfg. Measure at 185gr .451.

Any help would be awesome.

 

[std7mag]

Are you looking to load these?
Or just curious as to manufacture?
If loading, they look like your COAL os going to be pretty short.
Unique, Red Dot & Green Dot are my favorite powders for lead 185s out of 45 ACP.
If just curious on manufacturer, then i can look when i get home from work, if someone else hasn't come up with the answer by then.

 

[lotech]

Those appear to be home swaged, probably on a C-H Swage-O-Matic press.

 

[Twicepop]

Half jacket semi-wadcutters, shoot 'em but drive them fast enough so that you don't get a core/jacket separation and leave the jacket in the bore. Use data for jacketed bullets.

 

[rockrat]

Didn't Speer make slugs like that, decades ago?

 

[Knotwild]

I'm thinking Speer was 200 gr. I remember them. I have some cast 185's that have a longer nose. I almost bet they are designed for revolver use, which would include the Long Colt. In an auto, those may, or may not feed. When I was young I always tried to hot rod the 45 acp. but as I got older, a little touch of Bullseye is pleasant to shoot, relatively clean (compared to Unique anyway), and a lb of it goes a long way.

If they were mine, I would probably try a magazine and if they fed, I would go further, if not, I would pass them on to someone that could use them.

 

[lotech]

Didn't Speer make slugs like that, decades ago?

This is from memory and may not be 100% accurate, but I think the Speer half-jacketed bullets had an entirely different configuration; they were of swc design. Hornady made half-jacketed bullets, but they also had a different nose configuration that what is depicted in the original post. However, many different nose styles were available from C-H and they most likely included the one shown.

 

[std7mag]

Half jacket semi-wadcutters, shoot 'em but drive them fast enough so that you don't get a core/jacket separation and leave the jacket in the bore. Use data for jacketed bullets.

Oops...
Looking at these again, after reading your comment, i see your right!
Thought the different color at the bottom was aged lubricant.

 

[pcmacd]

I'm thinking Speer was 200 gr. I remember them. I have some cast 185's that have a longer nose. I almost bet they are designed for revolver use, which would include the Long Colt. In an auto, those may, or may not feed. When I was young I always tried to hot rod the 45 acp. but as I got older, a little touch of Bullseye is pleasant to shoot, relatively clean (compared to Unique anyway), and a lb of it goes a long way.

If they were mine, I would probably try a magazine and if they fed, I would go further, if not, I would pass them on to someone that could use them.

If you think Bullseye is clean, try some Scott Solo 1000 (or whoever is making it these days.) If Bullseye is clean, Solo 1K is spic and span.

 

[divingin]

Cast 185's are pretty popular for bullseye work. Roughly the same shape as yours. I prefer the 200SWCs though, as I have fewer problems getting them to feed. As I recall, they're pretty equal accuracy wise.