Still shooting the Remington +Ps through a pre-war S&W Military & Police .38 Special to see if anything happens. As you may recall after shooting a couple boxes of this ammo I was underwhelmed by its performance and wondered out loud what all the fuss and concern was over this load. This most recent range session didn't answer that question.
Shot another box through the old M&P without any effect to the gun. I will keep shooting but given the ammo's obviously mild character I don't expect to see any effect. Just for fun I took along an old Model 40. This gun was made around 1958 or so and I wanted to feel what this load was like in a J frame pistol. One of the dire warnings I often hear and read about +P is the vicious recoil in a J frame.
Yeah, right. As an experiment, I held the revolver with thumb and middle finger only, deliberately leaving the ring finger and pinky dangling in air and not gripping the gun at all with them. I ripped off five rapid fire shots holding the gun thusly and I had no trouble at all in maintaining control. So much for all that recoil.
I am still of the mind that factory +P is nothing more than a gallery load. The pressure and power levels are actually quite mild and I have absolutely no idea how this ammo has attained the fearsome reputation it seems to enjoy in some quarters. Maybe at one time it was a stout load, and of course the specilaty companies like Cor-Bon may be putting out some stiff loads, but +P as sold by Remington, Winchester and Federal is my opinion little more than a good plinking load.
I'll keep shooting it and report what happens. So far it's big hairy bore.
Shot another box through the old M&P without any effect to the gun. I will keep shooting but given the ammo's obviously mild character I don't expect to see any effect. Just for fun I took along an old Model 40. This gun was made around 1958 or so and I wanted to feel what this load was like in a J frame pistol. One of the dire warnings I often hear and read about +P is the vicious recoil in a J frame.
Yeah, right. As an experiment, I held the revolver with thumb and middle finger only, deliberately leaving the ring finger and pinky dangling in air and not gripping the gun at all with them. I ripped off five rapid fire shots holding the gun thusly and I had no trouble at all in maintaining control. So much for all that recoil.
I am still of the mind that factory +P is nothing more than a gallery load. The pressure and power levels are actually quite mild and I have absolutely no idea how this ammo has attained the fearsome reputation it seems to enjoy in some quarters. Maybe at one time it was a stout load, and of course the specilaty companies like Cor-Bon may be putting out some stiff loads, but +P as sold by Remington, Winchester and Federal is my opinion little more than a good plinking load.
I'll keep shooting it and report what happens. So far it's big hairy bore.