We are taking sides now? Us vs them? Really?
>My local range was selling some 9mm phoenix ammunition or something that was 147gr. Would this be safe to use? Doesn't mention anything about extra powder. I bought a box and shot it through my BYF which was giving me hold open issues. held open after every round, but im curious if I shouldn't be shooting it.
I read this to mean that the 115 gn had been OK, but was giving the OP "hold open issues" at the end of each magazine (i.e., the toggle was NOT locking at the end of the shot string, probably because the 115gn load may be marginally weak), and the 147gn ammo was locking the toggle back after every shot (i.e., "held open after every round") instead of at the end of the magazine, which might imply too much force the jiggled the hold open spring to hold open early.
Next, velocity is not pressure. Sorry, but I can't look at the velocity I get from a load using Bullseye and, just from that velocity, compare to the pressure from a round using Blue Dot. Velocity is not pressure, as it also includes burn rate and probably several other factors. You can't fire a factory 115gn load and get 1109fps with Win 115gn FMJ-RN or 1030fps with WWB or 1118fps with Hornady 115gn HP-XTP and decide that ANY 115gn load that produces that velocity is safe or is producing the same pressure, as powder has an effect. Now, again, that may not have been what you wrote, but that is the way I read it and I don't think I wrote anything that you can disagree about other than it doesn't pertain to what you meant.
So I made my statements.
I love being personally attacked for simply reading what was written and maybe misinterpreting it.
Next, the problem I described that 'I "liked",' I described it as (1) only happened with 9x19 guns and (2) it looks rather odd seeing a case and a round suddenly being ejected together out of the gun. Sorry if you don't "like" my mentioning something that I found it interesting that is sort of an aside, but it is a 9x19 problem i have run into.
Finally, I admitted that I know NOTHING about any factory ammo, as I don't shoot it.
So, Sky Zero and Don: What SIDE are you taking that disagrees with anything I wrote? The most you can accuse me of is being confused by the original post and not correctly addressing the Sky's issue, and that is usually not grounds for a personal attack.
PS: I have tried to proof-read this again, but my computer keeps changing Sky to Shy.
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