While the swaging job Marv and I did wasn't enough to keep the ball captured, it wasn't a total loss at the range.
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We kept reading that you needed to use "high velocity" ammunition and there was a 200+ round break-in. 200 rounds of CCI "Mini-Mag" and 50 rounds of Remington Viper "Hyper Velocity" should do.
The second round short cycled. The rest of the failures seemed random.
A total of four rounds that nosed into the feed ramp (1 Rem, 3 CCI) three short-strokes and fail to feed a new round or cock the gun and one that ejected then just sat there with the next round almost loaded.
I've definitely fired less reliable guns.
Accuracy was fine, POI was about an inch below point of aim at 7 yards.
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Even left-handed!
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Willard gave some aluminum cased .45 ACP ammo a try in his various commander sized guns and a Sistema Colt. As is typical for 'luminum...
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This was the only failure out of several boxes! Huzzah!
We kept reading that you needed to use "high velocity" ammunition and there was a 200+ round break-in. 200 rounds of CCI "Mini-Mag" and 50 rounds of Remington Viper "Hyper Velocity" should do.
The second round short cycled. The rest of the failures seemed random.
A total of four rounds that nosed into the feed ramp (1 Rem, 3 CCI) three short-strokes and fail to feed a new round or cock the gun and one that ejected then just sat there with the next round almost loaded.
I've definitely fired less reliable guns.
Accuracy was fine, POI was about an inch below point of aim at 7 yards.
Even left-handed!
Willard gave some aluminum cased .45 ACP ammo a try in his various commander sized guns and a Sistema Colt. As is typical for 'luminum...
This was the only failure out of several boxes! Huzzah!