TTv2
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It's been almost a year since I got it and I finally got to shooting .45 Colt in my Public Defender and yeah, it was about 10 yards away indoor range, but I was pretty regularly hitting the black and I couldn't have been happier given that this is a revolver meant for self defense and range fun.
People crap on the way the birdshot patterns, but the fact of that is no matter what handgun caliber you use for a shot load, it's going to suffer from the same issues because of rifled barrels spinning the shot. You also get more bang for your buck with .410 cuz CCI .45 Colt #9 shot compared to typical .410, the .410 holds more shot of a larger pellet size and costs 5 times less than what the CCI shotshell would cost.
But my focus here isn't on the .410 aspect of these revolvers, it's the .45 Colt and the .45 Colt shoots fine for self defense use. That said, the big throats did lead the bore real good on my gun, so I'm going to load up some more ammo and try a Jacketed XTP load and see how that shoots a steel target at longer distance, say 25 and 50 yards. Oh, also there's a .45 Colt hollow base wadcutter available that I would like to try in .410 handguns as the hollow base should swell enough in the long chamber to seal the gases and prevent leading and improve accuracy.
So stay tuned.
People crap on the way the birdshot patterns, but the fact of that is no matter what handgun caliber you use for a shot load, it's going to suffer from the same issues because of rifled barrels spinning the shot. You also get more bang for your buck with .410 cuz CCI .45 Colt #9 shot compared to typical .410, the .410 holds more shot of a larger pellet size and costs 5 times less than what the CCI shotshell would cost.
But my focus here isn't on the .410 aspect of these revolvers, it's the .45 Colt and the .45 Colt shoots fine for self defense use. That said, the big throats did lead the bore real good on my gun, so I'm going to load up some more ammo and try a Jacketed XTP load and see how that shoots a steel target at longer distance, say 25 and 50 yards. Oh, also there's a .45 Colt hollow base wadcutter available that I would like to try in .410 handguns as the hollow base should swell enough in the long chamber to seal the gases and prevent leading and improve accuracy.
So stay tuned.