What is your favorite ammo for a 4516? Range & Carry use. Thanks!

For range use or SD?

Mine feeds anything and shoots most well. For store bought range ammo I use Winchester White Box. For more serious use I like 230 grain Speer Gold Dots. Most of my range shooting is done with reloads of a 200 grain SWC over 5.3 grains of W231 and a CCI LP primer. That load shoots well in all my 45's.

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Mine likes whatever you want to shoot in it, from 185gr LSWCs to 230 FMJ. Favorite general loads are a 185gr LSWC target load or a 230 gr FMJ loaded with WSF.

Favorite SD load is nickel Starline 45 Auto+P brass, a Hornady 230 HP/XTP, max load of Power Pistol to achieve +P ballistics, and a Fed 150. (Yes, I sometimes choose to carry handloads for SD. My choice, no worries.)

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If your 4516 is anything like my 4566, it will feed anything that fits into the mag, probably even rocks and BBs.

I have both 230 grn Gold Dots and Win PDX1s for my SD duty. Both feed well. I use 230 LRN reloads for range work and have never had a hint of a problem with any of them. God was smiling on S&W when they designed the 3rd Gen handguns!

This is what I carry in my 4516,

TESTED -- Federal HST .45acp 230 gr +P

this isn't a bad choice either,

Water Test--.45acp Winchester 230 gr JHP

On the range I use my own loads.

That is an eye opening post, Thanks LOBO!

Glad to help.

I tried some of the Winchester 230 grain PDX1 ammo in my 4516-1 on Sunday and had at least one FTF (would not go into battery) in each magazine using 3 different mags. I was really looking forward to this working because it is on the shelf at the local wally world.

I am going to give the gun a good cleaning and lube and try again. Could it be that I had the rails lubed with Tetra gun grease and it was only 35 degrees out? I will try oil next time out and see what happens. I had no problems with my home brew loads.

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Speer 230 Gold Dot.

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For practice:

Wal-Mart Winchester 230 gr. FMJ by the 100 rd. Box

For work:

Issued 230 gr. Speer Gold Dot

Both work perfect. 4516s feed whatever you manage to get in the magazines.

Agrees, they will digest just about anything. I put many thousands of full house 230 grain rounds though mine with nary a glitch. Shot 200 grain semi-wadcutters just as well.