Wednesday, August 25, 2010
And the plot thickens...
Remember that issue I mentioned with my 1911 last week? Seems that there's a smith down in West Virginia who's been running into the same thing quite a bit lately. I guess the smart thing would be for me to pick up some different ammo... (although that's easier said than done around here.)
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Next time it does it, mic the round.
(WV: "duclectr". Hannibal becomes a feudal lord.)
I do need to pick up a decent set of calipers one of these days...
I'm not sure who's making the WWB stuff for Winchester these days.
I do remember that A-Merc (American Ammunition) was using Israeli-made brass in their .45ACP stuff that was badly out-of-spec and blowing up Glocks left and right about five years ago.
It's a shame really, up until that box it was the most reliable stuff I'd run through that gun, and the price isn't bad for 45. Guess it's just another sign I need to look more into reloading setups.
That's pretty much all I run in pistol. I've had a few FTF but I'm pretty sure it's a bad mag (round barely comes out of the mag). I'm going to pay closer attention to it though. I can get Federal for about the same price and it's been plentiful lately.
Well Blazer Brass (the only other factory .45acp available in the Stevens Point area...) ran even worse than the WWB. Hooray?
True story about A-Merc, and why I worry about out-of-spec brass in these situations:
Back when A-Merc was having all the issues, especially with .45 (overly thick case walls reduced capacity, slightly oversize bullets with a thin copper wash belled case mouths out 'way past spec...) we banned the stuff on the range, hanging a sign and an empty A-Merc box on the range door, this after a round of the stuff blew up in a guy's Kimber Gold Match II, sending the extractor flying twenty feet...
Shortly thereafter, a regular customer came out to the counter from the range and stated he was having issues with his heater. I went out to Lane 1 and found his Springfield Professional Model about 3/4 into battery, with a box of A-Merc laying beside it on the tray.
I chastised him about using the banned ammo, and then took his gun out to the gunsmithing shack, where we proceeded to beat his $2,400 custom heater open with a hammer to remove the stuck round...
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