Do HiPoints function with CCI Shot Loads

[barnetmill]

Does anyone here know if 9mm and .45 ACP HiPoints will function with commercial CCI shot loads.

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

They generally will not cycle the slide well.

 

[barnetmill]

They generally will not cycle the slide well.

Excuse me for being redundant here, but has this been your experience with hipoints in both of these calibers? I know in typical short recoil automatic pistols they will not function.

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

I googled it. And watched some videos then.

 

[barnetmill]

I googled it. And watched some videos then.

Too bad you did not list them. I am looking for HiPoint on google with shotshells. I am still looking someone must have filmed it with a hipoint.
On the HiPoint forum some say they will work and others say no. Maybe greasing the rounds would get them to work in a straight blowback.

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

Oh they weren't with hi-point guns. I just googled 9mm and 45 acp shot shell performance in semi-auto's. Hi-points have very stiff recoil springs. So they wont work well. Maybe in a SW Shield EZ they might.

 

[OneFreeTexan]

Have you actuallly tried them in a HI-point

 

[barnetmill]

Oh they weren't with hi-point guns. I just googled 9mm and 45 acp shot shell performance in semi-auto's. Hi-points have very stiff recoil springs. So they wont work well. Maybe in a SW Shield EZ they might.

You did write a response one should never beat the messenger is how the saying goes. But It is always best to state what you actually know. Thanks for trying.
I still do not know.

 

[MedWheeler]

^^
Maybe you'll be the one that finds out.

A search through hipointfirearmsforum turned up three posts in which the writers reported having tried shot rounds in C9 pistols. One poster only shot one round and hated the spread, so he couldn't comment on feeding reliability.

The other two both reported that the plastic tips and light cases of shot ammunition caused feeding problems in their C9 pistols. This would imply that their slides cycled at least far enough to eject the empties

 

[RevolvingGarbage]

If it was me, I would order a spare recoil spring and plan to test fire and lop a coil off and repeat a few times until I got it to cycle. That’s assuming the rounds will feed reliably. You may also run out of spring length before you achieve the result you want, and if you go too low there’s always a chance the gun will allow a cartridge to extract under pressure which would be particularly unpleasant with a case full of birdshot blowing out of the ejection port.