Did a little velocity validation on some 45 ACP this weekend.62F
5" Dan Wesson Valor

230 Corbon HP 908 FPS
230 Golden sabre 930 FPS
225 Hornady critical defense (+P) 988 FPS
255 Underwood hard cast (+P) 950 FPS

Surprised Hornady ~hit their projected velocity of 990 FPS
Underwood beat their advertised velocity by 25 FPS.

Good velocities for 230gr bullets.

For 230 grain bullets of any type that's good. Standard 230 grain FMJ so called "hardball" used to make about 820fps from memory. So as some of the above are listed as +P that's pretty good. I'd be a little worried that it is giving the pistol a battering though.

I did switch out my recoil spring from 16 lbs to 18.5 lbs. Changed out the firing pin spring.
the Valor still cycles all: no problem.

7 gains of unique and a 230 cast gets me 840 average in 5 different 1911's.

A deadly bullet was the 230 gr.Federal HP the Border Patrol used to give us..DEA were a bunch of cheap bastards and gave us milsrup ball for heavens sake, that milsurp ball ammo is junk and all but bounces off a levi jacket!! I think it was Tom Bell that survived 13 shots with gI ball in Mexico..My kid want me to write a book, but at 84 I can't remember much of anything any more. Waited tooo long.

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My kid want me to write a book, but at 84 I can't remember much of anything any more. Waited tooo long.

Ray keep a note book near by write it down as you remember stuff soon you well have enough.

From my last trip to the range. S&W 625JM 4"

Hornady Custom 230gr. XTP +P 909fps
Hornady Critical Defense 185gr. FTX 950fps
Sellier&Bellot 230gr. FMJ 692fps

In a 5” 1911 in 2008 I chronographed some green box 230 grain Remington JHP Ammo I bought at Walmart that went 960 FPS. They were not marked +P.

I would put more emphises on bullet construction than wt. or velocity..An expandidng bullet at 800 FPS beats the hell out of a too hard hollow point at 990 fps...Ideal is a jacket hollow point at 990 that expands violently...so test those bullets in jel or magazines whatever to get a comparison between the bullets you have tested for velocity, they many not be the same as bone and flesh, but they will compare to the other bullets and that works well enough, use te one that expands best but does not come apart.

I use 9 G. of Blue Dot w/ a 230 G. cast for 860 MV. A slow moving freight train. Ray, I agree with p dog. Keep a note pad around + write stuff down when it occurs to you. A full life lived would be an interest to many; Hell, I'd buy a copy!

Hell, can't keep a notebook, hands shake too bad to write!! and Id keep loosing the damn book!

Well Ray, If your hands shake so bad that you can't shoot or write, then look at the bright side + think of your 1st sweetheart in your youth.

Well Ray, they have audio dictation now days. I just activate Surrey on my phone and and tell her to make a note. Everything I say she writes down. Then save it. When your ready for your book activate the notes.

But I understand shaken hands.

At what age is one immune from prosicution, that would be the most interesting part!

All my old friends would go into comas and the other half would put contracts out on me!