For me? Bullseye matches. Lyman 452460 is the bees knees in my gun.Why would you handload any other cast bullet?
I sure was bummed when GAR shut their doors.When I in-processed to Ft. Meyer, VA, in 1993, and got my pay straightened out, the Clinton panic was well underway. GAR had sold Dad some good stuff shortly prior, and so I found the address in Shotgun News and sent, I think, $1 and/or SASE to get a catalogue. I called NJ where GAR was located.
I found the answer! After the Schofield was dropped in 1880, they never made any more .45's. S&W keep the dimensions for their 1914 English .455 Webley's for ever. They were never updated until 1989 Model .45's. My S&W second model .455 works great with .456" sized bullets.That #452374 mould that cast at .457" would have been just the ticket for my first S&W M-25-2 x 6.5". Taylor-throat the forcing cone, and carry on. .451" grooves, and .456" throats. N-frame 44s and 45s of that vintage all had cavernous oversized throats for some reason (late 1970s-mid 1980s). After a year and a half of failures with castings (but decent with j-words) I sold it off in 1982. I might have done things differently these days, but back then I too many other fish to fry to waste time dancing with a cranky poorly-dimensioned revolver.
Yessir. Those here that remember Gopher Slayer (one of the Burrito Shoot co-conspirators) and myself went to an estate sale where the items included 6 Model 29 and 629 S&Ws listed for sale. We took pin gauges with us--and the 36 throats were as follows--2 throats passed .432" pins, one passed a .434" pin, and the rest were .433". Commercial jacketed bullets are almost all made between .429" and .430".My 29-3 uses a .433 bullet & nothing smaller.