CurtInOhio wrote:I decided to get a box each of 124 and 147 gr ammo. He suggested considering 124 in warmer weahter, 147 in cold weather... but that either would be great rounds all year. He also suggested getting some of each, firing them, and picking the one that I shoot best... good idea to me, so I'm waiting on it to get here to try out. I'll try out a box of each and decide which I like better, then probably go with that.
Yup, try it and see what you like, but more importantly, see what your gun likes!
My Hi-Power shoots factory reloads in 124grain and 115 grain all day long, but I recently bought a bunch of factory reloads in 147 grain that the Hi-Power just refuses to feed. It's not the magazines -- I know 'cause I tried six different magazines.
Maybe the length of the reloaded rounds isn't right. Maybe they just don't sit right in a full mag, but I found that if I loaded more than 10 rounds in magazine the top two or three would not feed.
The time to find out about a failure like that is at the range -- not in a gun fight!!!
TunnelRat
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CurtInOhio wrote:I decided to get a box each of 124 and 147 gr ammo. He suggested considering 124 in warmer weahter, 147 in cold weather... but that either would be great rounds all year. He also suggested getting some of each, firing them, and picking the one that I shoot best... good idea to me, so I'm waiting on it to get here to try out. I'll try out a box of each and decide which I like better, then probably go with that.
Yup, try it and see what you like, but more importantly, see what your gun likes!
My Hi-Power shoots factory reloads in 124grain and 115 grain all day long, but I recently bought a bunch of factory reloads in 147 grain that the Hi-Power just refuses to feed. It's not the magazines -- I know 'cause I tried six different magazines.
Maybe the length of the reloaded rounds isn't right. Maybe they just don't sit right in a full mag, but I found that if I loaded more than 10 rounds in magazine the top two or three would not feed.
The time to find out about a failure like that is at the range -- not in a gun fight!!!
