So I loaded up 20 rounds of SRP ammo hoping that it would cut down on the variability of the load. Nope.
Well - it's better but not a ton. The extreme spread from my regular small pistol magnum load is 47 FPS. On the Small Rifle primer the extreme spread was 46 FPS. The SD was slightly worse (14.3 vs 14.9) . Conditions were similar - more humid this day but I don't think it'd have materially changed the results.
What I can report is my average velocity did increase with Small Rifle Primers by approximately 28 FPS - so using straight line math - the equivalent of reducing the load by about .2 grains. So if I'm shooting SRP primers - I could load about 9.3 grains of powder versus the 9.5 I am loading with SPPM - which would net me an extra 16 rounds per 1# of powder - (That's 752 rounds per pound versus 736 rounds per pound - assuming no spillage). So probably not worth mentioning. For those that didn't read the prior ammo loading post - the powder I'm using is Shooters World Major Pistol - which is equivalent to Alliant Accurate #7 on relative burn rate - it's slower than the popular Vhita Vhouri powders for open guns slightly and the result is I am getting a lot of unburned powder - which is leading to large extreme spreads.
I noticed - after taking basically 3-4 months off my open guns - how my dot is moving. Multi port compensated guns take on a life of their own as the gas hits the comps. The dot moves left then darts back right then loops up liek it's moving to about the 12:30 position then sort of curves toward 2:30 before looping back down to the point of impact
I'm going to pick up some Winchester AutoComp at the store today to try (assuming they have 1# jugs at Scheels - which they seem to have been recently) and see if I get more reliable combustion. Goal being to get ammo that performs consistently - and then I'm going to evaluate a 115 load versus 124.
So there's it happening - it was a good stage up until that point . You can actually see the issue starting as the gun hangs out of batter entering the position which forced me to rack a round out to get it back into battery - which I handled well. This sequence was paper, mini popper, mini popper activator, distant open target, bobber (didn't engage), partial (didn't engage) - so I ate 4 mikes and 2 procedurals right there. And it still was a 3.44 hit factor.
The good news so now the guns working I look forward to two days of mayhem!
Below - you can see a shock buff - it's a washer, basically that threads onto the guide rod. The theory of what a shock buff does is it alleviates some of the impact when the slide opens all the way - they're usually made out of Delrin or rubber or whatever but this one is aluminum and was supposed to be maintenance free. It kind of compresses the spring a bit more since you don't trim the spring so it makes lighter springs work more like a higher poundage ...
I got this pretty epic slow motion in the range of the Deagle going off. that gun is silly fun to shoot. The fireball is massive - I started to chrono the ammo I have for it - it's not as impressive as the fireball would suggest. It's about 1200 FPS with a 300 grain projectile. For comparison - the 6" 10mm with a 180 grain Blazer Brass was doing 180 grains at 1200 FPS.
The 10mm 1911 is pretty tame to shoot - not wildly different form a 45.
I was going to do a video on 10mm ammo and then shoot water jugs and slow motion of them popping - but then the sky opened up on me.
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So Sig's new 320 magazine 2011 style pistol is now announced. Full ambi controls - series 80 trigger mechanism that got refined similar to the HD Staccatos. Wild that the announcement is like a week after Staccato rolled out the HD 4.6. MSRP is $2399. Obviously - Sig has a black eye they are wading through and this is a gun folks have been asking about forever. From a positioning perspective- they're in the same neighborhood as the Kimber and Bul Armory guns. For the money - you're at a bare bones Staccato HD P4 doorstep. Based on features - I think it's competitive for the money on paper. They'll probably get loads of dropped gun comments on the video. What I do know about the gun through conversations with a few folks off the record
It's been in engineering for literal years - I first heard about it over 2 years ago that it was coming. When they started the project they wanted a really high mean rounds between stoppages - and that took effort to get at - the claim they say for this one is ...
So sorry for this being posted so last minute - I had this edited like 2-3 weeks ago - conversations were with OAD that it would go live for SHOT - but then they announced it way earlier and I never connected the fact it wasn't attempting to be embargo'd. So I never uploaded it - like an idiot. I finished that drill this morning and never got you guys a preview of it when I DID realize that there wasn't any sort of embargo violation. So yeah. Sorry about that. That all said - I don't know what is about this gun. They - kind of like the Daniel Defense H9 - failed to kind of build on the momentum they started at SHOT 2023 and the conversation seems to have moved past this gun. The early 2311s were not as impressive as this is now - side by side - this is a MUCH better gun than what they were making last year. It's much better fit and the resultant accuracy is improved despite having the ports. My 2311 is production gun - like $600 service pistol accurate - but not 2011 accurate. ...
