My .30 Reloads ran great today

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Originally Posted by spacecoast

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.

Hi,

If you really want to shoot your Luger for accuracy and fun, here are some suggestions.

Medium to slow powders perform best and will bring your sights right "on" at 25 yards. If you have them, you might try Power Pistol or Herco as powder alternatives.

With round nose bullets, 1.173 inches should be about perfect for totally reliable feeding from a full 8 round magazine.

Lugers are really accurate shooters when they have their loads tuned properly!! Three shot clover leaves are common.

Good shooting!


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