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...when your carry gun doesn't like the load your range guns like, but loves factory ammo, and you can't buy the bullets used in the factory load.

Anybody ever seen the 135 Gr Flexlock bullets for sale that Hornady Critical Duty 135 Gr 9x19 uses?
 
No.
They don't sell them as reloading component bullets.

But Speer Gold Dot or Hornady XTP should feed as well.

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Roll wit the punches

...when your carry gun doesn't like the load your range guns like, but loves factory ammo, and you can't buy the bullets used in the factory load.

Anybody ever seen the 135 Gr Flexlock bullets for sale that Hornady Critical Duty 135 Gr 9x19 uses?
Frustrated? To my mind, it is a matter of philosophy and attitude. Count your blessings.

You have different guns that are accurate with different loads? You are blessed with a variety (quantity) of guns

Some people CHOOSE of their own free will (for reasons many feel are wise) use factory ammo in their carry guns. Work up a load with cheap lead or plated bullets that hits close to factory ammo point of impact and feels reasonably close to factory ammo in recoil. Practice with your carry gun with that.

For target work, consider your range guns with the same consideration as you would if they were a completely different caliber. They are after all tasked with different functions, so could benefit from different ammo and even different ammo boxes.

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No.
They don't sell them as reloading component bullets.

*nod* Maybe that I need heavier bullets. I had stayed away from 147's for function. (It's a Kimber Ultra Aegis II...which have a kind of bizarre proprietary recoil spring which limits tuning options.)


But Speer Gold Dot or Hornady XTP should feed as well.

My standard range load is the old Stephen Camp load (a 126 Gr XTP, or Montana Gold as a substitute, and 5.9-6.0 Gr Unique. See the his web site for the story. ) It shoots great in a BHP or CZ75...almost the same barrel length, and identical twist. That was my accuracy load. I also shoot 125 Gr SNS coated RN loads (5.0 Gr Power Pistol) as a cheap minor practice load...but it isn't quite as accurate.

The 3" Aegis shot the Hornady CD 135 Gr. as good as I can shoot...and almost halved my Camp load that shoots so well in a BHP/CZ75.

It would have been wonderful to stick with the Stick Camp load to practice with the tiny 1911.

Frustrated? To my mind, it is a matter of philosophy and attitude. Count your blessings.

You're right. Thanks.

Yet now it is another personal challenge to be able to handload a better load for the Aegis. It is another challenge. I thought I found my 'pet' load, in the Stephen Camp load.

I try to standardize on loads, so that I know what they'll do. If you find one that works, you use it all the time, know it's trajectory and can hit steel/paper at random distances. Experimentation is great, but you also like a load that you're used to and can hit 'A's or clays with.

Yet you're right, because eventually the left, may limit my right to chase the center. ;) Another project isn't so bad.

Maybe I should be glad I can't find those bullets...it would be another item I'd feel compelled to stock for when I want to be accurate. (I'll carry factory, in the theory it would limit legal liability, should bad things happen.)
 
My favorite range load is a 124 RNL over 4.3 grs. Bullseye. It chronos at 1121 fps average out of a M&P 9c, pretty much replicating the velocities of the factory 124+P loads. Shoots same point of aim also. Feeds the same. Feels the same. Try it. Bonus is that the RNL bullets are a lot cheaper than any jacketed bullet.
 
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