5 Commercial Loads for the .45 Auto, If You Can Find One

Bob Campbell reviews 5 loads for the .45 Auto cartridge at the Shooter's Log entitled 5 (More) .45 ACP Loads To Consider. These include the Sig Saur 230 gr. FMJ, the Speer Gold Dot 230 gr. JHP, Winchester 185 gr. Silver Tip, the Fiocchi 200 gr. XTP and the Hornady 185 gr. Critical Defense. I have shot the Winchester Silver Tip in .38 Super Auto, where it feeds extraordinarily well in my .38 Super Auto pistol. I carry the Hornady Critical Defense in my every day carry.

I can attest to the Hornady Critical Defense load.  I bought mine before the Wuhan Flu hit.  Good luck finding any of these loads now, though.  It is catch as catch can, what with everyone buying everything gun related in sight.  I was looking for a turret press to supplement my single stage press and found that these were out of stock.  As I say, people are buying everything gun related in sight.

Speaking of the new people who are buying up everything in sight, over at  Bearing Arms Tom Knighton has an article explaining that New Gun Buyers Are Not Who You Think
Indeed, Knighton notes that a lot of them are women and minorities. That may change the Democrats' strategy to get rid of guns.

Further, the overall point about just who is buying those guns stands. The truth is that new gun owners come from across the socio-economic spectrum and may have lasting ramifications on the gun debate for decades to come. As black Americans are preached to about the evils of police and how everyone wants them dead, it’s no surprise that more than a few are out there buying firearms. They should, especially if they fear being targeted for a hate crime or something of the sort.

The truth is, guns are no longer all about middle age white dudes with pickup trucks and a wad of tobacco in their mouth. They never actually were, mind you, but that’s what people had in mind when you talked about gun owners.

It’s well past time to drop that stereotype and recognize that guns cross all such boundaries.

I have made the point before that the ownership of guns, and the practice and training with them should not be a right-left issue. It should not be a racial issue, or indeed any identity issue. Guns should be a people issue. Everyone who is not a felon, should have a gun, and should carry it everywhere. There should be no gun free zones, with the possible exception of prisons and court houses.

Well, I can dream, right?