Looking for advice on bullets and loads in the 300 grain range that will fit in a Taurus Titanium Tracker, caliber 45 colt. The trackers have such short cylinders, it's difficult to find a bullet I can seat deep enough and put a crimp on. I notice Buffalo Bore makes a load with 300 grain Speer bullets that's short enough, but may be a bit hot for my revolver. Would these be the same bullets Speer markets to the rest of us? Any input would be great!

You might think about applying the crimp on the ogive. That worked for me using LBT 300s in a Freedom Arms M-97 which has a short cylinder.

Not sure why you want 300 grain. I have good luck in my 45 Colt revolvers with the 270 grain Leadheads, and the 250 grain Hornadys. But with Titanium, any and all will bite.....

First, remember if you seat the bullet deeper into the case, back off on the powder charge as the deeper seated bullet will increase pressures. I have one of these lightweights too and am quite happy with the 250 grain Hornady XTP at 1200 FPS. It will do anything a 45 Colt was intended to do. Even though the Titaniums can take the pressure of a healthy load...all your doing by loading it to those levels is slowly ruining the gun. Don't even think about the BB loads in that revolver...you will destroy it in no time flat. If you are determined to ruin it, send it to me and buy a S&W revolver in titanium with the larger frame in 44mag to handle that kind of abuse. I am with Bill, why the need for the heavies?

BTW, they stopped making that particular revolver in 45 colt early in the series and are quite hard to come by. They also stopped production of the rest of that line in the other calibers a while ago due to the rising cost of titanium. Cherish it. Its a fine carry gun. Mine goes into the casket with me.

Thanks guys - I really have no wish to destroy the gun with super hot loads, I'm just looking for a heavy load in case I run into something hairy that wants to eat me. Any suggestions as far as loads? I'm currently shooting 240 grain Hornady XTP's, which perform quite lovely. Just wondering what everyone else is using. BTW, I love this gun and looked for quite awhile before I found one. I would prefer not to have it explode and take pieces of my body with it! Thanks guys!

If you need penetration perhaps a 250-265gr hard cast would do well in that revolver. You could try a 300gr and see if it fits the cylinder without seating it too deeply. A 250-300gr hard cast at 1100fps will kill just as quick as anything else you can stuff in a 45 colt case. I like the hornady XTP 250gr at 1200fps myself.

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Originally posted by Woodrow S:
If you need penetration perhaps a 250-265gr hard cast would do well in that revolver. You could try a 300gr and see if it fits the cylinder without seating it too deeply. A 250-300gr hard cast at 1100fps will kill just as quick as anything else you can stuff in a 45 colt case. I like the hornady XTP 250gr at 1200fps myself.

Woodrow - If you don't mind me asking, what's your load for the XTP 250, and what OAL are you loading them at?

The load for the Taurus Titanium 45 Long Colt with the Hornady 250gr XTP is 24gr H110 and WLP primers with an OAL of 1.565 for 1200fps but I also use 20gr H4227 with the same bullet and OAL to get 1000fps for the kids and plinking around. I never liked loading the cheap lead bullets for plinking due to the ported barrel. I don't know if it really matters but I never wanted to mess with them regardless. I also use the H4227 for lighter loads because the H110 should not be loaded much less than full power loads due to its burning characteristics.

The BB 300 grain speer bullet at 1200 is not that high of a load I would expect your pistol to handle that one just fine.

I would find a hardcast at 300 grains to load at 1100 fps or so.

I have a 41 mag taurus titanium. Two hardcast loads I have come up with are a 265 at 1115 and a 293 at 1075.

You should easily hit 1100 with a 300 grain hardcast at lower pressures.

send this one to 1100 and you are good to go.

http://beartoothbullets.com/bulletselect/details.php?id=116

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Originally posted by RMiller:
send this one to 1100 and you are good to go.

http://beartoothbullets.com/bulletselect/details.php?id=116

I like the look of these bullets - I think I'll try some and see how much they hurt!

I think the factory full power Jacketed loads kick the worst.

Of if you have been shooting regular 45 colt ammo the 325 at 1050 or 1100 will most likely kick more.

When shoot my tracker I usually shoot 5-10 rounds of the heavy loads and 20-50 rounds of the lighter loads.