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Had you not read into my posts you would see I never said bullseye will produce 1000fps. What I said was given my results it would take 7+grs to get to a 1000fps which BTW I already knew because I had consulted several reloading manuals as well as alliant's site. I used 1000fps to make a point...

Sierra-950fps, Lyman-976fps, Alliant-986...I would think 950's would be reasonable...evidently not...general consensus is use a medium burn rate powder.

I said nothing of the sort. I never said the loads tested should deliver max velocity. What I did say was that based on loads tested it would appear I'd have to be 7+grs to get to 950's. I never said the loads I tested should be delivering max-load velocity.

As mentioned earlier I have both those manuals.

True, haven't tried max load yet. I will be going back to the range with 5 each at 5.4grs and 5.6grs and see. I just want to be very careful cause a mentioned in another post bullseye can pressure spike pretty quick.

I've eliminated barrel and chronograph by firing factory ammo and fps are very close to ammo manufacturer spec's/fps. I do this on a regular basis whenever I'm working up loads just to make sure chronograph-Oehler 35 is good. I have to scales, redding beam scale and Gem-pro 250 along with check...

Based on incremental velocity gains in my first post and if they hold true at 6.4grs I'd be at 912fps so in order to get to 950's+ I'd be exceeding significantly any max loads I've researched. I'm thinking that maybe going with a slower burning powder as mentioned in previous posts might...maybe...

Have several manuals sierra max load 5.6grs bullseye=950fps, Lyman 6.0grs=976....that's why I'm asking the question about powder choice or am I doing something wrong ? Barrel is 5 inch in Springfield 1911 shooting Evergladesammo bullets.

Went to the range about a week ago and over a chronograph shot 5 rounds of 185gr JHP in 45 ACP seated 1.175 COAL under 4.6grs Bullseye powder lit by Federal Match primer resulted in 763fps. I was optimistic so I loaded 5 rounds each at 4.8grs, 5.0grs and 5.2 grs then went yesterday again and...

Well here are the results... As mentioned above the 4.6grs bulleye =763fps and I was optimistic but, then today tested 4.8grs=786fps, 5.0grs=800fps and 5.2grs=816. An average of 18fps increase for every .2gr increase in powder...not what I was expecting, heck I'd have to go 7+grs of powder to...

Sorry, I don't have any pics but the last pic at the bottom of your post looks very close to how my bullet looks seated. I did make it to the range yesterday and chronograph them under 4.6grs of bullseye and they ran at 763fps average, recoil was mild, primers looked good, fed and ejected...

After seating and taper crimp case mouth diameter is .471

Springfield 1911

At 1.167 did you cut back on powder charge? I'm using Bullseye and Sierra reloading manual list 4.2 to 5.6 and Lyman lists 3.5 to 6.0. I'm thinking that given the my shorter COAL that I'm going to go on the lighter side at about 4.6 and see what results I'll get...will be shooting over a chrony...

yes removed bell. with land marks on bullet, I'm pretty sure it headspacing on the bullet instead of the case mouth.