[Shooter 2.5]

Just a little correction. .45 ACP headspaces on the mouth so a roll crimp shouldn't be used. I think you meant taper crimp. I also have never trimmed a piece of .45 ACP brass in my life. Never have and I don't think I ever will. I still have stuff that I must have reloaded a couple of dozen times. My son is loading hotter so I am finding split brass once in a while but that's his fault for duplicating Hydra-shoks.

The PPK is a blow back mechanism. It doesn't lock and that's why it recoils so hard. It's not the weight.
Just for giggles, that opening sequence of "The Rifleman" is real. The Winchester 92 really did have that many rounds in it. 13 I think but I also read somewhere it was 32-20. Not sure about that one.

[Monty22]

If I'm thinking of the right thing, the Rifleman's opening, as was admitted, had a nail placed just right as to set off the next round as fast as possible. Still, good stuff.

[AnAmericanMother]

Right you are . . . my mistake. Must have been thinking of the .348 (ouch).

We have never had to trim military brass, but some of the lighter weight commercial brass, especially the Remington, has stretched on us with heavy loads. And the case capacity is different enough that we have separated those cases out into different lots. I have noticed more case stretching in the .38 Super, plus a very annoying bulge in the side of the case until we switched to a Bar-Sto barrel.

And thanks for the info about the PPK/S (I am glad to get outside confirmation of my perception of the nasty recoil). I'm a lot more familiar with Ol' Slabsides.

[Vigilantcitizen]

"The PPK is a blow back mechanism. It doesn't lock and that's why it recoils so hard. It's not the weight. Just for giggles, that opening sequence of "The Rifleman" is real. The Winchester 92 really did have that many rounds in it. 13 I think but I also read somewhere it was 32-20. Not sure about that one.

The ppk I shot, which I have posted a link to a pic of, did not seem to have bad recoil to me, and I have smaller hands. I had no trouble rapidly placing 5 shots into a 5 gal paint can from 25 yards, one handed, a feat which I could not repeat with my 9mm. Barrel lift was non-existant nor did the pistol pull to one side or another.

Another thing that impressed me about the little ppk, was the fact that before my friend showed me the gun and we took it to the range, it had sat for probably 25 years without a round fired through it. It flawlessly fired about 300 rounds with not a single jam.

All of this is IMHO, of course.