Edarnold
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Sure. You could do that if you want to load to the ragged edge. (With your IMproperly loaded ammo! Lol.)
Hey, while you're at it, have him ream it to 9x21, or 9x23!
The guns work the way they were intended to. If you want them to work differently from their intended spec, you'll have to change them.
Ah, I see what we have here is a Failure to Communicate.
Some European manufacturers ( CZ, Serbian XD, and Otisrush's Walther ), choose to optimize their barrels for something like NATO-spec RNFMJ. Perhaps there is a teensy improvement in accuracy when using that specific ammunition. So, any bullet that does not match the ' standard' contour must be loaded deeper into an already small powder space, because " The guns work the way they were intended to ", and that's that. However, Mr. Bds then chimes in with tales of third-party Lone Wolf and KKM barrels for his Glock, that have drastically different leades for the same purpose: shooting his hand loads. Seems to me I have seen postings about these barrel makers, stating that they will cut the leade to suit the purchasers load, rather than insisting that you have to adapt your ammunition to whatever they arbitrarily choose to ship. So, some people apparently don't accept that the manufacturer is always right, so "shut up and sit down if you don't like it."
While there may be some perverse pleasure in having to tailor a different bullet/COL/powder charge for different guns in the same caliber, I would find that a royal PITA. Unless someone can show me an actual real-world advantage to a too-short leade, I respectfully submit that such a barrel needs to be fixed, by lengthening the leade to accept the owner's choice of bullets, loaded to the CIP standard of 1.142".
Regarding my advocacy of " (I)mproperly loaded " "ragged-edge" handloads, part of the reason for +P+ loads for the 9x19 round is that there just isn't very much powder room in that short case. Compounding the problem is the need to make the commercial manufacturers loads work in pistols with short leades, which means that bullets such as the XTP have to be seated deep into the powder space. I have no use for overpressure +P+ loadings and will not use them in my pistols. Fortunately, since my guns have proper length leades, I don't need to resort to 'ragged-edge' loads to get the ballistics I desire. For an example, I refer you to the published Vitavouri load for the 115gr Hornaday XTP , over 6.1gr N340 powder, AT A COL OF 1.142". This is a normal pressure maximum load, out of a 4" barrel, equalling the velocity listed by several boutique ammo makers for their +P+ loadings.
Those who just punch paper with their guns will still look askance at such UN-natural, " durn fool is jest gonna blow hisself up! " ballistics. I consider my handguns to be first and foremost defense weapons, so any ballistic advantage I can safely provide by proper loading Is a plus.