Grigori Rasputin
Member
I am sorry, but I have to seriously disagree with the two posters who say that loading the magazine a certain way will eliminate rimlock.
I recently purchased my second KT .32. My first was the design that did not have the external hex screw holding the extractor in place. It fired everything I put in it (mostly ball and Gold Dots) without a hiccup and accuracy was good enough to keep all hits in the "bowling pin area" of a silhouette at 25 yds.
The one I bought a few days ago, NIB and just arrived at the dealer, is the newer configuration with the external hex screw holding the extractor in place. It, too, shot Serbian ball, Gold Dots, and Mag Safes without a hiccup.
After looking at the pics of expanded rounds and ballistic stats on "GoldenLoki.com", I decided that I wanted to try the Cor-Bon 60 gr HP's. About the second round into my first magazine of them, everything locked up. My magazine was locked up so badly, I had to disassemble it to fix the problem. I had a second magazine I had purchased with this gun and it, too, experienced rimlock after about the second shot. It, too, had to be completely disassembled to fix the lockup of cartridges.
The rangemaster where I was shooting explained the concept of rimlock to me and said I was loading the mags wrong. He showed me how to do it right and loaded them correctly as I watched. I thought this to be a really flimsy premise on which to stake one's life, with the rounds placed "just so" in the magazine. With variables like recoil, inertia from walking, sitting, running, falling, and other things, the potential for this precise alignment to be undone was more than probable, I thought. I appreciated his help, mind you, but the idea just did not sound like something to bet your life on. It wasn't.
I went back in to the booth and two rounds into each magazine, they were both locked up and needed disassembly, again. As I had suspected, recoil had knocked everything out of this precise alignment.
Just to be sure that nothing had changed with my gun or the mags, I fired a twenty round box of Gold Dots using both mags without a stutter. I traded the unopened box of Cor Bons for another box of Gold Dots.
The gun has been utterly reliable with everything I have run through it, except the Cor Bons. That is a real shame as the pics of expanded bullets and the 200+ fps difference in Cor Bons and the Gold Dots would have made them my choice load for the gun. Given their poor performance in my KT, I will stick with the Gold Dots. I can count on them to go bang and make a hole.
I recently purchased my second KT .32. My first was the design that did not have the external hex screw holding the extractor in place. It fired everything I put in it (mostly ball and Gold Dots) without a hiccup and accuracy was good enough to keep all hits in the "bowling pin area" of a silhouette at 25 yds.
The one I bought a few days ago, NIB and just arrived at the dealer, is the newer configuration with the external hex screw holding the extractor in place. It, too, shot Serbian ball, Gold Dots, and Mag Safes without a hiccup.
After looking at the pics of expanded rounds and ballistic stats on "GoldenLoki.com", I decided that I wanted to try the Cor-Bon 60 gr HP's. About the second round into my first magazine of them, everything locked up. My magazine was locked up so badly, I had to disassemble it to fix the problem. I had a second magazine I had purchased with this gun and it, too, experienced rimlock after about the second shot. It, too, had to be completely disassembled to fix the lockup of cartridges.
The rangemaster where I was shooting explained the concept of rimlock to me and said I was loading the mags wrong. He showed me how to do it right and loaded them correctly as I watched. I thought this to be a really flimsy premise on which to stake one's life, with the rounds placed "just so" in the magazine. With variables like recoil, inertia from walking, sitting, running, falling, and other things, the potential for this precise alignment to be undone was more than probable, I thought. I appreciated his help, mind you, but the idea just did not sound like something to bet your life on. It wasn't.
I went back in to the booth and two rounds into each magazine, they were both locked up and needed disassembly, again. As I had suspected, recoil had knocked everything out of this precise alignment.
Just to be sure that nothing had changed with my gun or the mags, I fired a twenty round box of Gold Dots using both mags without a stutter. I traded the unopened box of Cor Bons for another box of Gold Dots.
The gun has been utterly reliable with everything I have run through it, except the Cor Bons. That is a real shame as the pics of expanded bullets and the 200+ fps difference in Cor Bons and the Gold Dots would have made them my choice load for the gun. Given their poor performance in my KT, I will stick with the Gold Dots. I can count on them to go bang and make a hole.