Monday, May 19, 2014

Range Notes...

Another 50 rounds of 115gr Winchester Value Pack stuff means 200 rounds through the PPX now. The slide did not lock back on round number 180, but I am fairly certain that was operator-induced and not the gun's fault. That said, it was magazine #2, and I'll be keeping an eye out for it in the future. Subjectively speaking, it's a very soft-shooting pistol.
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5 comments:

Old NFO said...

Looks like it's a keeper! :-)

7:11 PM, May 19, 2014
New Jovian Thunderbolt said...

To quote a famous blogger I met at the NRAAM, "A pink gun? That must be for girls."

8:18 PM, May 19, 2014
og said...

I pawed around at one last Saturday. That grip fits my hand remarkably well, I'm impressed with the engineering, and its cheap as chips. Even the sights look ok, for polymers. I don't own a nine, I'm not really a handgun guy- but this might be a good first one. I eagerly await more shootings.

12:30 AM, May 20, 2014
og said...

If anyone is in northern Illinois, GAT guns has one for rent at the range. Damn, it's a nice little gun. The line of the bore is a little high, but I think that will just take some getting used to. And to me, it has really negligible- feeling recoil, I expect because the grip feels good, is easy to hang on to. I'd be worried a bit about how grippy the grip stays after a few thousand rounds, but dang, at that price, wear one out and throw it away. They had them in stock at $419 for the 9. That oddly shaped hunchback stock feels much more comfy in my hand than any grock I ever held, and it doesn't bear on the bone of the heel of my hand like the "Standard" arched mainspring housing of a 1911 does. If I go back to shooting steel plates, I will do it with one of these, I think.

5:39 PM, May 20, 2014
Alien said...

Tam, any advice on how to easily count rounds during testing? Chrono work is easy because the test lots are small and the notebook is right there, but on extended tests, like you're doing on the PPX and Todd Green does on his test guns, tracking malfs and breakages, especially during matches or high round count classes, not so much.

I can tell you I had a F2F from a light strike between rounds 76 and 90 because it occurred on the sixth 15-round mag and I recovered the unfired round, but not that it was round 82 for the day, the seventh round down in the mag, or 2,873 for the gun. Even then, a couple hours into a busy class I've usually lost track of the mag count, not to mention the sequence in which they were used, especially if there are a lot of partial mag drills.

5:36 AM, May 21, 2014

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