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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Are we going to get to the point where the newer latest greatest phase kind of chills out and this is just the guns that we get for a while? I mean what firearms needs do you have that aren't being met by one of the products offered? I don't have the capacity to imagine what we can do at this point with centerfired handguns. Other than make them less expensive - potentially.
I legit don't have a clue - curious if you have a better imagination than I do with where we go from here.
So I'm not a huge fan of this gun. The ports on the side of the comp don't really do anything. The recoil spring is over sprung so it chokes the gun if shot one handed with both 115 and 135.
It's softer than the P4.5 - kind of - but less reliable.
I like the C4X better. It's just not amazing.
So I was doing stage practice this morning. Per a conversation with Aaron Eddins a while back - he does one cold run in match mode, a "hair on fire" run - as quick as possible - accept less on sights - a focus run - trying to get all alpha ignoring time (to an extent) - then a new "match" run. When I do stage work I'll play with this and see what I'm getting from the performances and play with stuff I'm observing to see if I can either get better consistency or better times.
The stage was a little 11 shot stage with a two step move to the left drawing to a no shoot partial at 15 ish yards - open target at 22 yards - probably a 7-8 step move to the middle position with a narrow window coming onto a no shoot partial at probably 6 yards and an open target at the same - 4-5 steps to the right 25 yard open - finish on a 10" or so plate.
Cold run was a 9.48 - 2 Charlie - so would be like a 5.38 factor. The speed mode where I had a mike no shoot on the close no shoot partial - but otherwise "OK" ...
