Tom Bri
Member
Well, we tried something a little different tonight, loaded 20 grains of pyrodex into .45 auto cases and shot them out of a semiauto, a 1911. Worked pretty good, the gun cycled through half a dozen mags without any trouble, and not too much obvious crud buildup. Looked like it could have gone on shooting quite a while.
20 grains didn't quite fill the case, so there was some compression of the powder with the bullet seated.
It felt kind of funny later cleaning up a modern Springfield Armory Loaded M1911 with my black powder equipment though. There turned out to be, no surprise, a layer of black gunk everywhere. I took that thing down to bits and cleaned it out good, first with TC #13 bore cleaner, then a second with Outers Tri-Lube. The Outers took off a lot of crud that the TC hadn't.
The fire and sparks in the dark were great, and it was fun not to have to reload after every shot. Bam bam bam for seven rounds, then quick mag change and seven more. Kind of addictive, best of both worlds.
But the clean-up was a pain with all the moving parts, so it isn't something I will do much, I don't think.
I am just wondering if other folks have used BP or Pyrodex or whatever in a modern firearm, and what the results were. Wish I had a chronograph to see what kind of velocity the Pyrodex gave. Next time will be daylight shooting for accuracy.
20 grains didn't quite fill the case, so there was some compression of the powder with the bullet seated.
It felt kind of funny later cleaning up a modern Springfield Armory Loaded M1911 with my black powder equipment though. There turned out to be, no surprise, a layer of black gunk everywhere. I took that thing down to bits and cleaned it out good, first with TC #13 bore cleaner, then a second with Outers Tri-Lube. The Outers took off a lot of crud that the TC hadn't.
The fire and sparks in the dark were great, and it was fun not to have to reload after every shot. Bam bam bam for seven rounds, then quick mag change and seven more. Kind of addictive, best of both worlds.
But the clean-up was a pain with all the moving parts, so it isn't something I will do much, I don't think.
I am just wondering if other folks have used BP or Pyrodex or whatever in a modern firearm, and what the results were. Wish I had a chronograph to see what kind of velocity the Pyrodex gave. Next time will be daylight shooting for accuracy.
