Benefitting from the experience of others
ljnowell said:
So you have never used it in 45 acp, yet are advising the need to change springs? I DO SHOOT 5k a year in 45acp, almost entirely with AA#2. I go through more than 5lbs of it a year. 3/4s of that is in 45acp.
I was entirely respectful in my post and yours is definately less than so. "do what you want?"
I shoot IDPA and bullseye comp with AA#2 in 45acp, I feel qualified to give that opinion. You do not. I hope the OP realizes that a bolded name doesnt equal experience.
Yup, that's right. I competed with 38 Super, so I never felt compelled to work around the margins with the .45 ACP. You'll notice I mentioned two times that light loads using No 2 might require a recoil spring change.
I didn't say you couldn't get No 2 to push a round fast enough to get the 1911 to cycle.
I didn't even say you'll
need another recoil spring.
I said this -
me said:
It would be awesome in 38 Special and light .45 loads. You might have to get a reduced recoil spring to cycle a .45 with it, which is a good idea for light loads in a .45 ACP.
And that's true for
any light load in a semi-automatic handgun.
I'll never have a baby, but I don't need to deliver a child to trust a woman when she says it hurts.
Nearly a dozen hard-core IPSC competitors at my local club complained about giving themselves tennis elbow and tendonitis after using two powders for their full-power practice loads - Bullseye and Clays. Most of them thought it was just the price they paid shooting 10,000 rounds a year. Some guys even switched to 38 Super hoping to alleviate it.
One of them got fed up with trying to keep track of different powders and loads. So he stopped loading anything but what he competed with. Those symptoms weren't there at the end of the year, while everyone else was taking ibuprofin and suffering those same aches.
He suggested the other fellas try it, and they saw their symptoms go away, too.
You may never even notice it. A couple of these guys were nationally-ranked competitors back in the 80s and 90s, the group practiced together every week, and several of them traveled across the country to shoot matches on the weekends. Those who weren't as dedicated to the sport never suffered those symptoms.
However, I'll readily admit none of them tried that with No 2. Accurate powders just weren't on the radar back then. Too few shops carried it around here.