Knowing that both feed reliabily from an officer's model Colt
Between the two, I would buy the cheaper, to get more practice with that particular load, and have a bigger stash of it for later, for cheaper.
I have bought and tested both. I think I may have been leaning toward the TAP because of the +P loading, but it sounds like the PDX1 has the edge w/ the newer tech.
Doubletap is not using the Speer Gold Dot bullet anymore.
Thank you then. You are a great asset to the online Arms community.Reaper, that first test was one of mine...
Doubletap is using the Montana Gold bullet instead of the Gold Dot.
The reliability is the key. I know what I currently use I have thoroughly tested in my specific home defense pistol. To switch to a new round for home defense, I'd want to run 200 rounds through my pistol when it's both clean and filthy, limp wrisiting it, shooting at funny angles, etc. I suspect there is a very low chance it wouldn't feed properly (everything feeds fine through my HD pistol) but I would rather check it out first.I have the 230 TAP +P rounds in my mags at the moment. I just saw the PDX1 in .45 for the first time pretty recently so when I switch these out I might see how they work for me. I usually buy a bunch of rounds and test them out.... if they work reliably I'll carry them. Then after a year I'll do the same again. It's way too expensive to keep switching SD rounds multiple times per year because buying enough to do an effective test is good money..especially since some of them are over $1/round now.
I e-mailed Doubletap and they do still use the Gold Dot for the Bonded Defense.
I got confused because the thread was TAP(which uses the XTP) bullet and they used to use that and switched to montana gold.
Sorry!