I Get These Ideas Once In Awhile

by Jared, Sunday, November 02, 2025, 11:14 (16 hours, 29 minutes ago) @ JimT

I have a lot of Red Dot and not much Bullseye, but your loads are the same as mine with just the powders switched.

In 45 Colt most loads are either 8.0 to 8.5 gr of Unique/Universal with a Keith bullet or 6.0gr Red Dot with a 250-260gr RNFP.

In 44 Special Keith bullets are loaded with 7.5gr of Unique/Universal or a 245gr RNFP with 5.0gr of red Dot.

A while back I got a Cimarron 1872 open top 44 Special. I didn’t want to hot rod it any so I shot a few factory loads from Winchester. I found 4.5gr of Red Dot with the 245gr RNFP was almost an exact Duplicate. So that is my standard loading in the open top, although it does get 5.0 gr from time to time.