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For those of you who missed it, I picked up my P-3AT, finally, on Tuesday, Dec 30.
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Now for phase 2 of the saga: the life and times of living with a P-3AT. I went to my range today. It was obvious no one has been there since 4' of snow buried the place on two consecutive weekends. I slept till 3pm and it was 4pm by the time I got there and starting to get dark... I climbed over the snow banks left by the plows and waded out to the closest target stand, which was unfortunately at the 25 yard line and firmly frozen in the snow. (Mental note to self: buy my own target stand). I fired 50 rds of UMC ball. I only fired 5 rds at a time ejecting the last round to reload it as the bottom round in the mag to avoid smashing up the follower as I haven't done any mods to the gun at this point. No malfunctions... only 1 round grazed the top of my hair line. After about 6 mags of this, my last round failed to go into full battery because it had been smilified 6 times and suffered considerable malformation of the nose of the bullet and about 2mm of set back. I didn't count this as a malfunction. I'm not used to the sights. The sights were very hard to see in the light I had... and 25 yards is a bit long for shooting this gun. Needless to say, I had a great deal of difficulty keeping the shots on the paper let alone establishing any groups. By the end of the 50 rounds my right wrist was limping along but that still caused no FTF problems. Here's my smiley... it seems rather deep:
I'll grab the calipers later, along with a fresh box of UMC, and see if I can measure any discernable set back from a single strike. All in all, I'm reasonably happy so far. Since I'm certain it will feed the UMC ball reliably, I'll carry it with that for now until I think the gun is broken in. Then I'll make a determination as to whether I need to mod the feed ramp (seems inevitable) and can test various HP rounds I've accumulated.
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Now for phase 2 of the saga: the life and times of living with a P-3AT. I went to my range today. It was obvious no one has been there since 4' of snow buried the place on two consecutive weekends. I slept till 3pm and it was 4pm by the time I got there and starting to get dark... I climbed over the snow banks left by the plows and waded out to the closest target stand, which was unfortunately at the 25 yard line and firmly frozen in the snow. (Mental note to self: buy my own target stand). I fired 50 rds of UMC ball. I only fired 5 rds at a time ejecting the last round to reload it as the bottom round in the mag to avoid smashing up the follower as I haven't done any mods to the gun at this point. No malfunctions... only 1 round grazed the top of my hair line. After about 6 mags of this, my last round failed to go into full battery because it had been smilified 6 times and suffered considerable malformation of the nose of the bullet and about 2mm of set back. I didn't count this as a malfunction. I'm not used to the sights. The sights were very hard to see in the light I had... and 25 yards is a bit long for shooting this gun. Needless to say, I had a great deal of difficulty keeping the shots on the paper let alone establishing any groups. By the end of the 50 rounds my right wrist was limping along but that still caused no FTF problems. Here's my smiley... it seems rather deep:

I'll grab the calipers later, along with a fresh box of UMC, and see if I can measure any discernable set back from a single strike. All in all, I'm reasonably happy so far. Since I'm certain it will feed the UMC ball reliably, I'll carry it with that for now until I think the gun is broken in. Then I'll make a determination as to whether I need to mod the feed ramp (seems inevitable) and can test various HP rounds I've accumulated.