Reloading 45 ACP

Not many cartridges have lived as long as the 45 ACP. In fact, not many of anything has. Adopted by the U.S. military in the Model 1911 pistol during the year 1911, the grand old soldier marches on while dozens of modern-day wonders introduced since are now pushing up daisies.

And while the pistol mostly served its decades of military duty in the hands of ground troops, early on it served in the air as well. Until Harry Kauper invented an interrupter cam capable of synchronizing the firing of a machine gun so each of its bullets traveled between the propeller blades of aircraft, American aviators of World War I plinked at German fighters with various rifles and handguns, and the...

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