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Originally Posted by Craig T
Jeff, I love your 3rd Gen SAA collection. I've been looking for a 3rd Gen .45 in 7 1/2 to shoot in my silhoeute matches. I love that gun. I've seen a few nice ones at the Carol Watson auctions. I just need to get my arms around how much they've gone up. They ain't gonna get any cheaper. I need to pull the trigger (no pun intended).
45LC is BY FAR my favorite early pistol caliber to reload. Much easier than 44-40 or 38-40 to be consistent. I use the same load as you at my pistol caliber rifle silouete match...only 250gr FN GC, but the same 17gr A2400. It's a little dirty, but damn is it accurate.
Here's my 45LC rifle. Knocks down a ram with authority. You need a metal detector to find the pistol cal chickens after you hit em 
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Colt still sells Peacemakers, brand new. Wait seems to be about 6-8 months. The price really isn't bad - it's less than one would pay for many factory "custom" 1911's.
I do love the .45 Colt. I think I have about 10-11 guns so chambered, from Peacemakers to the big Rugers. Very easy to reload to a couple of distinctly different performance levels, too. I had Veral Smith cut me a 300 grain mold with the crimp groove placed so they would chamber in full size Blackhawks, but not Peacemakers. No chance of an expensive "oops..." that way.
I tried and tried to like the .44-40 years ago, but have long since sold off the Peacemakers and original '73 I had in that caliber. Just not worth the extra effort to me. Give me carbide dies and nice, thick brass any day. I'd rather shoot than fuss around with hard to reload calibers.
Oh, and check out the Turnbull case colors on this one. He's doing all of Colt's finish work on Peacemakers these days:
