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·The first or second time I posted on this board after I came back from the range the first time and I was reporting my finding on my P-3AT I mentioned that the Remington UMC 95 Gr. jacketed round point ammo had the most recoil of any of the ammo that I shot that day including CorBon. Someone else said they noticed the same thing that day on here. I just now measured some of the Remington and Carbon ammo and there is some difference in lengths. The Remington 95 grain on average is .972 overall length while the .90 grain CorBon is around .943. The loading manuals call for the min. overall length to be above .950 on all weights of bullets which the CorBon is not. All the CorBon Ammo I've ever measured in any caliber is always shorter than the min. overall length called for in the reloading manuals which probably accounts for the higher power that they advertise due to an increase in pressure rather than more powder or higher powered powder being put into the casings (which don't cost them as much either). Anyway the smiley I measured on one of my Remington rounds has set the bullet back into the casing to where the overall length of the round is .940" which is well below the min. overall length for a .95 grain bullet which very well could account for the higher pressure that caused the noticeable difference in recoil with the Remington ammo when I was testing. It would seem to me to be safer to use lighter bullets which won't create as much pressure if they are seated deeper in the casing by the load ramp hitting them than the longer Remington rounds with the heavier bullets.
Something I did while at the range when testing my gun now makes me wonder if I didn't almost have an accident because of it. I kept reloading my magazine after shooting 6 rounds to keep from racking the slide after shooting it empty since it's so hard to pull back so that means that the top round was staying in the gun everytime I reloaded which could have been a bad thing if the bullet kept getting driven further and further back into the casing. Maybe it hit a limit on how far it could be driven back and maybe around .940" is the limit since that is the length of my round with the smiley on it now. If it is then the CorBon might be the safest round to shoot since it's almost that short to begin with.
Maybe that was the problem with the gun we saw the picture of on here a week or so ago that was blown apart?
Rook
Something I did while at the range when testing my gun now makes me wonder if I didn't almost have an accident because of it. I kept reloading my magazine after shooting 6 rounds to keep from racking the slide after shooting it empty since it's so hard to pull back so that means that the top round was staying in the gun everytime I reloaded which could have been a bad thing if the bullet kept getting driven further and further back into the casing. Maybe it hit a limit on how far it could be driven back and maybe around .940" is the limit since that is the length of my round with the smiley on it now. If it is then the CorBon might be the safest round to shoot since it's almost that short to begin with.
Maybe that was the problem with the gun we saw the picture of on here a week or so ago that was blown apart?
Rook