Today I took my carry guns out to the range to finally put a decent amount of rounds through them. I will honestly admit, before today I had less than 50 rounds through both and have been carrying one or the other since I got my carry permit. Smart? Thats debatable, both are rock solid and proven pistols and honestly, a failure can happen even with a well worn in pistol with proven ammo. Now here is where the proof comes about certain guns liking certain ammo and if you are a reloader/competitor or just reloader, you really owe it to yourself (your sanity and time) to do lots of test loads. A 9mm load is not the same across the board, and here is proof. My fancy.pants 3-gun pistol with its KKM barrel loves my competition load of 147gn CBHP X-Treme Bullets over 4.4gns of Power Pistol at 1.50OAL. Its semi-soft shooting, very reliable and very accurate. Earlier in the summer I wanted to work up a budget load for practice with my 3-gun pistol. Not that my competition load is pricey, its dirt cheap. I just wanted to spread my wings a bit reloading. Well, it HATES the budget load I worked up for it which was 124gn RMR plated over 3.7gns of Bullseye at 1.40 OAL. It shot those like absolute SHIT, wouldnt burn all the powder, was inaccurate.....but felt good in the hand. Well I had some left overs.....around 40 and decided to burn them up in my carry guns. With the Shields 3.1 barrel, it is what it is. Youre not going to do bullseye shooting with it. Its a defensive only pistol where it needs to be very accurate at vital areas out to a semi-short distance. It ate up Winchester white box (115gn), Aguila 124gn RNs, my competition loads and was very happy with the budget loads as well and felt good in the hand. My G19 also ate up everything I fed it with zero hiccups but when it came to the practice ammo.....there was a very noticeable difference. It shot my competition loads into sub 3 groups at 5 and 8 yards; respectable, absolutely. The budget loads though.....were sub 2 groups....15 rounds through a pretty ragged 1-1/2 area. I was really trying to do my part and honestly, the cold, my hands and the glock no friction grip meant the pistol was doing a lot of walking around in my grip. Had to reposition several times. Point is.....what shoots well in one pistol, might not shoot well at all in another pistol....of the same caliber or even the same brand. One big difference is my competition pistol uses a KKM barrel which has cut rifling using the land and groove design where the stock Glock barrel on the G19 uses the characteristic Glock Polygonal un-cut rifling. Big difference in the ballistic response to two different barrels shooting the same ammo.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 02:31:28 +0000
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