View Single Post
Old June 7, 2014, 08:47 PM   #8
mboylan
Senior Member
 
Join Date: March 31, 2011
Posts: 120
Quote:
Enjoy the gun; I love mine.

If you aren't getting the slide to cycle then you are no where near max pressure. I shoot 147 gr FMJ-TC with 4.2 gr of Power Pistol at an OAL of 1.135. That's a power factor of about 132. My minimum load is 3.9 which didn't always cycle the slide because of charge variation, which is why I bumped it up to 4.0 at first. That gave me a PF of 125, which is the minimum for USPSA production or ESP/SSP in IDPA.
What you are saying does not apply to heavy bullets under extremely fast powders. You are using a slow burning stable powder that is as far away from Clays as it gets.

Really fast powders make minimum power factor at close to max pressures. Clays has to produce a sharp pressure wave to get the bullet to move. Sometimes it's necessary to respring the gun.

It's a nice soft .45 powder. But not for 9mm with 135 gr and 147 gr bullets.
mboylan is offline  
 
Page generated in 0.02401 seconds with 8 queries