Had a little trouble at the range today with my 9mm Ruger PCC.
Loads were mixed brass, mixed CCI #500 and Wolf SP primers, 4.0 grains of Bullseye with 125 HAP bullets @ 1.100”.
First issue was quite a few failures to fire. Usually that is poorly seated primers, but only the Wolf primers had trouble, and they have had trouble in several of my handguns. One of the Wolf primers refused to fire even after 4 whacks. Good strong dents, but no go.
Then I had a few fliers. Like 5” high at 50 yards from the bench. I really want to blame the mixed brass for this one. This was brass I bought last winter. A lot of odd ball head stamps, some military stamps. I shot a few groups sorting by head stamp, and thing’s really tightened up. Blazer brass really shot some nice groups, under 1.5” @ 50 yards with open sights off a rest. It might be time to start sorting brass again.
If anyone is considering the Ruger PCC, I highly recommend it. It’s a lot of fun, very accurate with most components and very reliable. Nice trigger. I had the old Ruger police carbine, it was accurate and reliable too, but recoil was pretty heavy with the old one.
Loads were mixed brass, mixed CCI #500 and Wolf SP primers, 4.0 grains of Bullseye with 125 HAP bullets @ 1.100”.
First issue was quite a few failures to fire. Usually that is poorly seated primers, but only the Wolf primers had trouble, and they have had trouble in several of my handguns. One of the Wolf primers refused to fire even after 4 whacks. Good strong dents, but no go.
Then I had a few fliers. Like 5” high at 50 yards from the bench. I really want to blame the mixed brass for this one. This was brass I bought last winter. A lot of odd ball head stamps, some military stamps. I shot a few groups sorting by head stamp, and thing’s really tightened up. Blazer brass really shot some nice groups, under 1.5” @ 50 yards with open sights off a rest. It might be time to start sorting brass again.
If anyone is considering the Ruger PCC, I highly recommend it. It’s a lot of fun, very accurate with most components and very reliable. Nice trigger. I had the old Ruger police carbine, it was accurate and reliable too, but recoil was pretty heavy with the old one.