If you were to fill a .45 acp completely with powder...?

Question

And then design an arm capable of withstanding the preassure, what would it do, preformance wise? (muzzle velocity, range, etc...)
I'm not sure, but I think the standard load is 5 grains!

What if it were to be filled with bursting powder instead?

Answer 1

No need to even try that. Just get a 10mm Glock. They have about double the power of a .45 and you won't have to worry about blowing it up. I use 12 grains of Accurate #7 powder with 190 grain bullets in mine and get 1200 feet per second.

Answer 2

Jonathan, like Grizzly said, you're not going to improve the performance of the standard .45 acp by any such reloading means other than by adding a longer barrel or using a lighter bullet that will still chamber and cycle in your pistol. A while back someone attempted to duplicate the performance of the .10mm by creating a new .45 acp designated as the .45 Super. Great round. But new casings had to be made as the standard .45 acp casing wouldn't handle the additional pressure and new guns had to be built. The standard forty-fives like the old warhorse 1911 Colt couldn't handle these new hot rounds. The project didn't go very far for fear of these new hot rounds being loaded in regular forty-fives because if you didn't read the stamping on the back of the bullet case you COULDN'T TELL THEM FROM REGULAR .45 acp ROUNDS. Even Glock made their new .45 GAP a different length so that (besides working in a .9mm frame size pistol) people wouldn't try to load them in a .45 acp pistol.

So about your reloading question... Don't do it unless you want to experience a big KABOOM! Ouch, there goes my pistol, there goes my hand, there goes my face... If you need something hotter than a .45 acp then see if someone still has a .45 Super for sale (good luck finding ammo for it though it should shoot standard .45 acp), or do like everyone else did. They just got a .10mm. I did and I love it.

Good luck.

H

Answer 3

Using any fast burning nitro powder, the only result obtained from a 'compressed load' in a .45ACP case would be a catastrophic failure, ranging from a burst brass casing to a burst chamber in the weapon barrel.
The best performance for a .45ACP round is about 1100 fps MAX.
and NO AMOUNT of overloading will improve this.
There have been advances made over the .45ACP marketed, most notably the .45 Win. Mag. but any gain in performance has usually been lost in less controlability of the heavier weapon developed for the more powerful cartridge.

Answer 4

do you have some kind of wish to harm to yourself because what you are talking about doing is very unsafe and a 45ACP pistol blowing up about a foot away from your head is not good at all

let me give you a little advise
reload only the charges listed in a reputable reloading Manuel like Speer, Hornaday, Lee, Sierra, Nosler, A Square etc.
to do other wise is ludicrous

Answer 5

If you were to load such a round with fast burning powder like Alliant's Bulleye, or Winchester's 231, you would have just touched off a hand granade in your bare hands.

Answer 6

It depends on the bullet and the powder type and how hot you want it . If you have a reloading manual it will tell you all you need to know. I like sierra

Answer 7

Nothing particularly interesting I'd wager, or you'd see some such monstrosity being marketed right now.

Answer 8

I am sure sombody has tried this before,and likely ruined their gun.

Answer 9

umm.... your arm wouldn't be the problem... the chamber pressure would exceed the safe limit and you'd probably blow your ******* barrel to ****.

Answer 10

i realy hope your not thinking of making a handgun gernade and this is a hypothetical question,, simply unsafe