1911Tuner
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Daylight came with me standin' on the line waitin' for it to get light enough to see the steel targets. The Nork was gettin' antsy to get started. The sun peeked over the trees, and the shootin' commenced. 750 rounds later, I had a sore hand and a dirty pistol....a dirty functioning pistol. This, in spite of the fact that it had gobbled up everything that I could throw at it...save one round that refused to go into battery until I cleared the pistol and tried it again from the magazine. It was a 200-grain commercially cast
SWC with 6.5 grains of Unique providing the push. I chalked it up to a
bad round, since it didn't repeat for the remaining 200 rounds I had.
Extractor tension was set at the beginning of the test due to feeling a little excessive.
The ammo lineup:
Federal 230-grain Hydra-Shok...50 rounds
Remington 230-grain Golden Saber...50 rounds
PMC 230-grain Hardball...100 rounds
TFR 200-grain hard cast SWC/6.5 Unique...200 rounds
TFR 230-grain home cast round nose/5.0 Red Dot...200 rounds
TFR 230-grain RNJ/6.5 Unique...150 rounds
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The magazine lineup:
A mixture of Metalforms, USGI contract magazines with unaltered feed lips, and factory Colt magazines, marked both "C" and "M" on the base plate with Wolff 11-pound springs. All magazines were 7-round capacity,
and of course...they had Browning's Ingenious Dimple on the followers.
The hollowpoints started the show. Rapid-fired at about one round per second without letting the slide lock between mag changes produced no malfunctions. The slide locked at the 50-round mark and the next lot began. The pistol was allowed to cool for 5 minutes.
The lot of 200-grain lead reloads rapid-fired produced one malfunction at roughly the half-way mark which didn't repeat. The pistol was allowed to cool for 5 minutes at the end of each 100-round mark.
100 rounds of 230 RNJ/Unique was fired as fast as I could pull the trigger,
and the gun went into the water to cool. 50 rounds of the same lot was fired limp-wristed with the gun cradled on my hand with just my thumb and the crook of my index finger providing support. No malfunctions occured. Rate of fire was app. one round per 2 seconds. The gun was allowed to cool completely while I picked up brass and reloaded the magazines.
The remaining 200 rounds of 230-grain RN lead reloaded ammo was fired
at the rate of one round per 2-3 seconds at the falling plate machine at
15 yards. The gun will shoot tighter than I can...but I managed to eke out
around an 85% hit/miss ratio. The gun wasn't allowed to run dry until the last round of the last magazine, at which point it failed to lock on empty. Seven PMC factory rounds, fired one round at a time produced seven slidelocks, and I chalked it up to a fluke...The gun was pretty hot and dirty by this time.
At the conclusion of the test, the gun was detail-stripped for cleaning and inspection. No sign of iminent parts failure was apparent, and the extractor tension held it's setting...going strictly by feel. This marked approximately 1400-1500 rounds without cleaning or oiling the gun since I've owned it. Not too shabby for the fairly tight slide/frame fit that it has.
The gun was oiled with FP-10 and reassembled. (Thanks to 19112XS for sending me the FP-10. Good stuff!)
Finally, the remaining rounds in the lot of PMC were used slow-fire, one-handed at steel B-27 type targets at 25 yards...All hits and no malfunctions. The pistol was shot dry on each magazine and the slide locked every time.
Stand by for the next chapter in the ongoing 'Rinco Test in which 1,000
rounds of TFR lead 230-grain/Red Dot will go downrange in one session without any attempt to clean or oil the gun until the end of the string.
My money is on the Nork...
Cheers all!
Tuner
SWC with 6.5 grains of Unique providing the push. I chalked it up to a
bad round, since it didn't repeat for the remaining 200 rounds I had.
Extractor tension was set at the beginning of the test due to feeling a little excessive.
The ammo lineup:
Federal 230-grain Hydra-Shok...50 rounds
Remington 230-grain Golden Saber...50 rounds
PMC 230-grain Hardball...100 rounds
TFR 200-grain hard cast SWC/6.5 Unique...200 rounds
TFR 230-grain home cast round nose/5.0 Red Dot...200 rounds
TFR 230-grain RNJ/6.5 Unique...150 rounds
_____________________
The magazine lineup:
A mixture of Metalforms, USGI contract magazines with unaltered feed lips, and factory Colt magazines, marked both "C" and "M" on the base plate with Wolff 11-pound springs. All magazines were 7-round capacity,
and of course...they had Browning's Ingenious Dimple on the followers.
The hollowpoints started the show. Rapid-fired at about one round per second without letting the slide lock between mag changes produced no malfunctions. The slide locked at the 50-round mark and the next lot began. The pistol was allowed to cool for 5 minutes.
The lot of 200-grain lead reloads rapid-fired produced one malfunction at roughly the half-way mark which didn't repeat. The pistol was allowed to cool for 5 minutes at the end of each 100-round mark.
100 rounds of 230 RNJ/Unique was fired as fast as I could pull the trigger,
and the gun went into the water to cool. 50 rounds of the same lot was fired limp-wristed with the gun cradled on my hand with just my thumb and the crook of my index finger providing support. No malfunctions occured. Rate of fire was app. one round per 2 seconds. The gun was allowed to cool completely while I picked up brass and reloaded the magazines.
The remaining 200 rounds of 230-grain RN lead reloaded ammo was fired
at the rate of one round per 2-3 seconds at the falling plate machine at
15 yards. The gun will shoot tighter than I can...but I managed to eke out
around an 85% hit/miss ratio. The gun wasn't allowed to run dry until the last round of the last magazine, at which point it failed to lock on empty. Seven PMC factory rounds, fired one round at a time produced seven slidelocks, and I chalked it up to a fluke...The gun was pretty hot and dirty by this time.
At the conclusion of the test, the gun was detail-stripped for cleaning and inspection. No sign of iminent parts failure was apparent, and the extractor tension held it's setting...going strictly by feel. This marked approximately 1400-1500 rounds without cleaning or oiling the gun since I've owned it. Not too shabby for the fairly tight slide/frame fit that it has.
The gun was oiled with FP-10 and reassembled. (Thanks to 19112XS for sending me the FP-10. Good stuff!)
Finally, the remaining rounds in the lot of PMC were used slow-fire, one-handed at steel B-27 type targets at 25 yards...All hits and no malfunctions. The pistol was shot dry on each magazine and the slide locked every time.
Stand by for the next chapter in the ongoing 'Rinco Test in which 1,000
rounds of TFR lead 230-grain/Red Dot will go downrange in one session without any attempt to clean or oil the gun until the end of the string.
My money is on the Nork...
Cheers all!
Tuner
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