I recently bought a Taurus PT-132 Pro and was extremely pleased to find out it shot very well for me and was on par with how well I shoot the Beretta M-81 I have.
I have been shooting the .32 ACPs at a 10" steel plate at 30 yards and coke cans/water bottles at the 45 yard berm and have proved to myself that the 60 Gr XTP shot a good deal better than the 71 Gr RN bullets I had tried. Namely the Berrys, Magtech, Hornady. If I had shot any on target I did not save pics and could only go by memory and my log book. N310 and the 60 gr XTP was my top one by my notes, but the W231 load shot very well and I needed to use some of the old 3 pound metal can W-231 up, despite the very large ES & SD numbers of the W-231 load it shot very well at that close range.
AA #2 and N310 had both given good to very good ES & SD numbers, with N310 getting a three star rating on one load, with accuracy as good or better than the W-231 load. ( I give 1 to 4 stars, with precious few 4s. I gave a .32 Long load a 3 1/2 recently)
I had not done any load testing with the .32 ACP since 2012. The new to me Taurus has changed that.
Anyway, I took the Hornady 71 Gr FMJ and Hornady 60 Gr XTP loads with W-231 to the range again today for fun, but when I got done chronoing the two .32 Long loads it dawned on me I had it all set up to test the two .32 ACP loads on paper and get numbers on them again as well.
Load # 25 is the Hornady 60 Gr XTP (Blems: See note at end) and 2.7 Grs W-231.
Load # 26 is the Hornady 71 Gr FMJ and 2.3 Grs W-231. (Slower than factory, but shoots OK)
*Start low and work up, use these loads at your own risk*
(Blems: I bought 600 "Blem" 60 Gr JHPs back around 2012, which I assume are XTPs (Look identical), from Midway, but out of them only 212 measured .3125, while the rest measured .3085 and had terrible/near zero neck tension if you used an expander. I guess i could use them sans the expander, but will they shoot well? *Sigh* It sure turned me off of blems, even though I have had good luck with them prior to this.)
It was some of these 212 blems I had loaded up with my proven good factory new 60 Gr XTP/W-231 load and tested today. I bought 500 more factory new 60 Gr XTPs last week.
First target is the 60 Gr "XTP" Blem and the second is the Hornady 71 Gr FMJ. The hash marks on the target are 1" apart.
I have been shooting the .32 ACPs at a 10" steel plate at 30 yards and coke cans/water bottles at the 45 yard berm and have proved to myself that the 60 Gr XTP shot a good deal better than the 71 Gr RN bullets I had tried. Namely the Berrys, Magtech, Hornady. If I had shot any on target I did not save pics and could only go by memory and my log book. N310 and the 60 gr XTP was my top one by my notes, but the W231 load shot very well and I needed to use some of the old 3 pound metal can W-231 up, despite the very large ES & SD numbers of the W-231 load it shot very well at that close range.
AA #2 and N310 had both given good to very good ES & SD numbers, with N310 getting a three star rating on one load, with accuracy as good or better than the W-231 load. ( I give 1 to 4 stars, with precious few 4s. I gave a .32 Long load a 3 1/2 recently)
I had not done any load testing with the .32 ACP since 2012. The new to me Taurus has changed that.
Anyway, I took the Hornady 71 Gr FMJ and Hornady 60 Gr XTP loads with W-231 to the range again today for fun, but when I got done chronoing the two .32 Long loads it dawned on me I had it all set up to test the two .32 ACP loads on paper and get numbers on them again as well.
Load # 25 is the Hornady 60 Gr XTP (Blems: See note at end) and 2.7 Grs W-231.
Load # 26 is the Hornady 71 Gr FMJ and 2.3 Grs W-231. (Slower than factory, but shoots OK)
*Start low and work up, use these loads at your own risk*
(Blems: I bought 600 "Blem" 60 Gr JHPs back around 2012, which I assume are XTPs (Look identical), from Midway, but out of them only 212 measured .3125, while the rest measured .3085 and had terrible/near zero neck tension if you used an expander. I guess i could use them sans the expander, but will they shoot well? *Sigh* It sure turned me off of blems, even though I have had good luck with them prior to this.)
It was some of these 212 blems I had loaded up with my proven good factory new 60 Gr XTP/W-231 load and tested today. I bought 500 more factory new 60 Gr XTPs last week.
First target is the 60 Gr "XTP" Blem and the second is the Hornady 71 Gr FMJ. The hash marks on the target are 1" apart.