On Friday I had a 60 lb package from Brazos Precision dropped off, filled with 13 BnH 147gr. .357" Hi-tek Coated Bullets in nicely vaccum packed bags, I found an incredible deal for them. 10% off your first order for the month of October and order 60 lbs you earn free shipping, took advantage of the offer with a few friends... these bullets ended up being 5.3 cents each.
I decided to load up 50 with my current 150 gr. Blue Bullet load of 3.2 gr. Titegroup, which has always worked out well for me through my Canik TP9SFL and VP9L, and I felt like trying the powder Alliant Sport Pistol, loaded up 50 rounds of that at 3.4 gr, had to adjust seating depth slightly to pass the plunk test in all my barrels.
I was very impressed with how "clean" these bullets were to handle while loading compared to some orders of Blue Bullets I had in the past.
Anyways, Saturday afternoon I headed off to the range, of course only with 30 minutes sunlight remaining when I got there. I decided to shoot for 5 round groups at 15 yards, just rested my hands on the bench with the frame/dust cover resting on the lip of the table.
Top groups on each target are fired from the Canik, and the bottom is from the VP9L. (Yes the 5" point of impact difference is another conversation) POA was 6:00 on the bullseye with both guns. All groups shot with Winchester brass and Winchester SPP.
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Couldnt even call the "groups" with the Canik a Group, whereas the VP9L shot them all like a laser. I have about 14K rounds through the Canik, and I haven't really done bench work or shot for groups with it in a long time but I was appalled to see the results, they were no where this bad before. I realize this is a subject sample of one group per gun per load. I'll need to run them again to confirm what I found.
I ran the 3.3gr. Sport Pistol load at my USPSA match on Sunday (I was woefully low on loaded ammo going into the weekend) and had no problems, but MAN was it smokey, it was incredible. I've never experienced this much smoke with my Blue Bullets with Titegroup. After the 100 rounds Saturday evening and the ~160 at the match, the bore exhibited no signs of leading. Just regular powder fouling.
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Just another weekend's fun starting from the reloading bench.