So on a lark I agreed to do a project checking out a lever gun from Mad Pig Customs - obviously way outside of my normal lane but I like archaic weapons like the 1911 and why not check this out? At first - I was expecting it to be kind of like the Deagle where it's got no practical purpose.
Then in tarting it up with tactical crap I tried to group it at 100 yards yesterday on my rifle range at the range near my house and that group that you sear there was produced from the 125 grain Buffalo Bore JHP. It's 6" higher - but that's 5 shots - the bottom is a near perfect double - all with a stupid HS510C + Magnifier - far from ideal for precision shooting at 100. That got the old noggin jogging. Fast forward to today and I realize that this is the OG 300 black out - with supers it prints itty bitty groups - with subs you a thump things basically silently close up.
So now I have a can on order for this (JK Armament VersaX 9 - that's what the muzzle device that came on the rifle is designed for) and I'm eagerly waiting to get it in and understand how loud it is with subs and what a Sub/Super optic arrangement would be.
FWIW - the above group was with 50 yard zero for Magtech 357 ammo shot at 100 yards - so about a 6" offset from POA to POI at 100 for the 125 grain supers. A silent plinker at 50 might be something I could maraud hogs with.
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.
Just wanted to share this with you guys as an option you might not have heard of. Good quality, good execution, good designs. I don't have any sort of business relationship with them nor have interacted with them beyond giving them my credit card information. Pretty legit.
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" ...
