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Lee Jurras (SuperVel)used to post over at the S&W forum. I was “chatting” with him like he was just some regular joe... boy was I surprised when I found out.

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Back around 1970, roughly the same time Super Vel was making a fuss, a guy in one of the gun magazines, I think it was Dean Grinnell published what he called a hot 9mm load.

I will not repeat it here but it was 2 grains above what the Speer manual listed as maximum for Unique in the 9mm. I figured he would not have published it if it was not safe so I loaded maybe 20 rounds.

I loaded up a mag for the Browning Hi-power and let loose. It threw the empties around 30 feet and the primers were as flat as a frying pan. Some of the primers just fell out. The load was insane and it probably would have blown up some guns.

I still have no idea what the consequences of him publishing that load were. It must have resulted in some damaged guns.

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Lee Jurras (SuperVel)used to post over at the S&W forum. I was “chatting” with him like he was just some regular joe... boy was I surprised when I found out.

He was the local locksmith in Washington, Indiana for a decade-plus after his Shelbyville Super-Vel plant operation shut down. One afternoon I had to go over to his house rather than the nearby shop to settle with him for some key work, and there, on a table by the front door, was his original model for the Outstanding American Handgunner award [which he created] statue, about 2 feet tall. Not the first I'd run across, having *met* Jeff Cooper's and George Nonte's [I once threatened to hook a water sprinkler up to George's and have it sprinkle any bystanders breaking a photocell beam, and got him chuckling while trying to horse-trade him out of some cameras and Corvair parts] But them things look like they're not much fun to dust.

Elmer Keith, Lee Jurras, Bill Jordan, Harlon Carter

[pic by David Bradshaw ]