By the way:
It's scary how hot these things can get. The silver gun got so hot that the Hogue monogrip was uncomfortably warm.
It's scary how hot these things can get. The silver gun got so hot that the Hogue monogrip was uncomfortably warm.
Torture testing
I took two Hi Powers out to the range this afternoon in order to shoot a lot and shoot fast. The tricked out satin nickel carrying gun didn't hiccup a single time in eight full magazines of hot 115-grain jacketed reloads, but a 20-round magazine full of 115 Ranier hollow points caused three failures within the first six or seven rounds. I moved the Raniers over to the blued Belgian, and it fed and fired 50 fast rounds without a glitch. Both guns handled NATO ball (124gr @ > 1,200fps) just fine, and of course the carrying gun really likes 125-grain Cor Bons.
Okay, so that was fun. One objective was to finish off a bunch of the reloads, but I didn't want to be loading magazines out in the sun--now I'll have to go back later in the week. Oh, darn.
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Okay, so that was fun. One objective was to finish off a bunch of the reloads, but I didn't want to be loading magazines out in the sun--now I'll have to go back later in the week. Oh, darn.
