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To: archy
Improved again. Chargers.

Hope I don't need to try that muzzle-feeding technique...though I may "get" to, perhaps. Guess there's nothing really to be gained by the conversion, so I stay with my present equipment. Concerned about encountering larger, nastier critters...as I almost did a few days ago, but didn't need to fight..so it's stock configuration for me, as is.

Any thoughts on durability with hotter loads in my HP, like Cor-Bon 124's ? I'd like to use hotter rounds...but perhaps should go as far as I can with standard velocity...perhaps even 115's, which I've hardly even fired.
474 posted on 10/19/2003 11:30:59 PM PDT by PoorMuttly (Operation Enduring Muttly)
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To: PoorMuttly
Any thoughts on durability with hotter loads in my HP, like Cor-Bon 124's ? I'd like to use hotter rounds...but perhaps should go as far as I can with standard velocity...perhaps even 115's, which I've hardly even fired.

In 9mm, or 7,65? In 7,65, you might want to try the lead SWC bullets for .32 revolver cartridges, maybe even a HBWC load like the .38 Special and .38S&W reversed wadcutter loads. In the 7,62x25mm broomhandle/Tokarev I've used the .30 carbine tracer bullet, though it's probably a bit heavy [109 or 111 grains] for 7,65 Luger.

In a 9mm, you might want to think about a Glaser safety slug as the first one up the spout. I've done that more than once, particularly when I figured to be working inside under crowded circumstances. And I've been known to have a spare GP magazine loaded all-Glasers, though I've never had to resort to that somewhat expensive possibility [at $2 to $3 per shot!]

I had access to Super-Vel ammo back in the early 1970s and put more than 20,000 rounds of Lee Jurras' 115-grain HPs through my favoured 68C- GP. Nowadays, mostly ball, whatever I'm putting in a 9mm buzzgun [mostly Lapua and Norma, this past decade] or Cor-bon, depending on what I have on hand.

I've also been looking at the 9mm Federal and Lapua CEPP FMJ hollowpoints. I don't have enough experience yet to come to any conclusions, but I've had good results from both manufacturers in the past.

475 posted on 10/19/2003 11:44:14 PM PDT by archy (Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
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