My .30 Reloads ran great today

spacecoast · 12-27-2014, 01:20 PM

After today's regular NRA Outdoor Bullseye match at the local range, we had a 30-round "fun match" - National Match Course format (10 rounds slow fire at 50 yards, 10 rounds Timed Fire and 10 round Rapid Fire at 25 yards each).

I was a little apprehensive about shooting my 1922 Commercial Luger in the fun match because I had only tried a dozen rounds each of several reload recipes in it before today. I even took a 9mm Luger as a backup in case the .30s wouldn't feed reliably. However, it ran flawlessly for all 30 rounds using 4.1 gr. of AA#2 under the 93 grain bullets and brass I picked up here from GT.

Accuracy-wise, I was pretty pleased with the gun as well. Even with the typically heavy, creepy Luger trigger, 3-7/8" barrel, fixed sights and lack of trigger time with the gun, I had a 72 at slow fire, 87 at timed fire and 81 at rapid fire for a 240/300 aggregate. I normally shoot around 800 in a 900 match just for comparison purposes, averaging 82-85 slow fire and 92-94 timed and rapid fire with a nice High Standard .22 (iron sights).

All of my .30 rounds were loaded to 1.16" OAL. Thanks to everyone here for the prior advice for how to make reliably feeding reloads.

12-27-2014, 01:20 PM	#1
spacecoast User Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: FL and PA Posts: 332 Thanks: 276 Thanked 243 Times in 109 Posts	My .30 Reloads ran great today After today's regular NRA Outdoor Bullseye match at the local range, we had a 30-round "fun match" - National Match Course format (10 rounds slow fire at 50 yards, 10 rounds Timed Fire and 10 round Rapid Fire at 25 yards each). I was a little apprehensive about shooting my 1922 Commercial Luger in the fun match because I had only tried a dozen rounds each of several reload recipes in it before today. I even took a 9mm Luger as a backup in case the .30s wouldn't feed reliably. However, it ran flawlessly for all 30 rounds using 4.1 gr. of AA#2 under the 93 grain bullets and brass I picked up here from GT. Accuracy-wise, I was pretty pleased with the gun as well. Even with the typically heavy, creepy Luger trigger, 3-7/8" barrel, fixed sights and lack of trigger time with the gun, I had a 72 at slow fire, 87 at timed fire and 81 at rapid fire for a 240/300 aggregate. I normally shoot around 800 in a 900 match just for comparison purposes, averaging 82-85 slow fire and 92-94 timed and rapid fire with a nice High Standard .22 (iron sights). All of my .30 rounds were loaded to 1.16" OAL. Thanks to everyone here for the prior advice for how to make reliably feeding reloads.