Anchorite
Custom
My good man, the post is from 2016.
Ammunition Question
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The Night Rider
Hellcat
How many different ways can I say that I can't answer that question?
The Night Rider
Hellcat
After giving it some thought I'm going to go with my original answer. There are a whole bunch of SMEs who participate at pistol forum and I have not seen that there's any movement over there to take the list down.
I've told the story before but I specifically carry 124 grain Speer +P Golddots because Kathy Jackson, AKA The Cornered Cat recommended them to me specifically. She then directed me to Dr Robert's list and said that anything on it would work just fine.
That's good enough for me.
Jsimon78
Professional
We all shoot what we shoot for different reasons. I do the Hornady critical duty because of a gentleman I know is a retired sheriff. Of course over time I watched Hornady podcast about the how they came to it and watched some YouTube’ers actually doing the test. After all that I’m sold.
Biggfoot44
Custom
It's been a couple decades since Speer discontinued the Flying Ashtray ( the actual projectile , product #4477 ) .
Biggfoot44
Custom
Back on the Original Topic :
Yes , your pistol is perfectly fine ( safe ) with any SAAMI or CIP spec commercial ammunition [ Subject to the obligatory test everything in Your Gun , in Your Hands .]
With Bbl of 3.5 & shorter there might be factors of somewhat reduced velocity and/ or control ability. But with your 4.5in , that's moot .
9mm (9x19) has the "problem" of so many good to very good options of Defensive/ Duty ammunition, that analysis paralysis is easy to fall into. And there are multiple schools of design preferences, and debate about testing protocols .
I admit my bias , that l do not care for 147 . But they are certainly popular, and apparently the better ones don't totally suck .
My general preference is 124 . I have standardized on 124 HST , but freely observe the deciding factor was logistics. [ To my druthers] HST , Gold Dot , and the current branding of Ranger something something, are close enough in performance to not make any difference, and if l could have stacked deep one of the others at similar $ for 50rd boxes , l'd be equally confident.
Yes , your pistol is perfectly fine ( safe ) with any SAAMI or CIP spec commercial ammunition [ Subject to the obligatory test everything in Your Gun , in Your Hands .]
With Bbl of 3.5 & shorter there might be factors of somewhat reduced velocity and/ or control ability. But with your 4.5in , that's moot .
9mm (9x19) has the "problem" of so many good to very good options of Defensive/ Duty ammunition, that analysis paralysis is easy to fall into. And there are multiple schools of design preferences, and debate about testing protocols .
I admit my bias , that l do not care for 147 . But they are certainly popular, and apparently the better ones don't totally suck .
My general preference is 124 . I have standardized on 124 HST , but freely observe the deciding factor was logistics. [ To my druthers] HST , Gold Dot , and the current branding of Ranger something something, are close enough in performance to not make any difference, and if l could have stacked deep one of the others at similar $ for 50rd boxes , l'd be equally confident.
negolien
Master Class
Gold dots are plenty big enough to cause feeding issues especially in 1911's