Gtscotty
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My Ruger PCC came in Friday, so I loaded up three loads with the 165gr X-treme bullets and grabbed a box of factory AE 147gr loads to break things in yesterday.
I chronoed three of each load and got the following velocities:
147gr AE factory
1,041 fps
1,081 fps
1,077 fps
Avg. 1,066 fps
165gr X-treme RN
2.8gr Titegroup
799 fps
772 fps
829 fps
3.0gr W231
809 fps
806 fps
805 fps
3.2gr W231
836 fps
853 fps
839 fps
Just judging by slide velocity and recoil, AE factory loads seemed to be much hotter than any of my handloads, perhaps even a bit too hot for the PCC's blowback action. While shooting the 147s, I got some dings in the black finish around the ejection port, a bunch of mangled brass, and several malfunctions using my El Cheapo 31rd Korean Glock mag (15 Rd Glock and Korean mags ran fine). I didn't have any of these problems with the 165gr loads except for one hiccup with the Titegroup load in the 31rd Korean mag.
I'm liking the W231 loads, which, loader beware, were found in the internet, not in any publication. They seem to be a bit more uniform than the Titegroup loads, while still being quiet and soft shooting. Also Titegroup worked it's way into the mechanism in my Chargemaster Lite and bound things up, kind of a pain to fix.
I couldn't find any BE-86 locally, but that's next on the list, along with doing some accuracy tests with the above loads.
I chronoed three of each load and got the following velocities:
147gr AE factory
1,041 fps
1,081 fps
1,077 fps
Avg. 1,066 fps
165gr X-treme RN
2.8gr Titegroup
799 fps
772 fps
829 fps
3.0gr W231
809 fps
806 fps
805 fps
3.2gr W231
836 fps
853 fps
839 fps
Just judging by slide velocity and recoil, AE factory loads seemed to be much hotter than any of my handloads, perhaps even a bit too hot for the PCC's blowback action. While shooting the 147s, I got some dings in the black finish around the ejection port, a bunch of mangled brass, and several malfunctions using my El Cheapo 31rd Korean Glock mag (15 Rd Glock and Korean mags ran fine). I didn't have any of these problems with the 165gr loads except for one hiccup with the Titegroup load in the 31rd Korean mag.
I'm liking the W231 loads, which, loader beware, were found in the internet, not in any publication. They seem to be a bit more uniform than the Titegroup loads, while still being quiet and soft shooting. Also Titegroup worked it's way into the mechanism in my Chargemaster Lite and bound things up, kind of a pain to fix.
I couldn't find any BE-86 locally, but that's next on the list, along with doing some accuracy tests with the above loads.
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