9mm ammo

[DavidJayUden]

Regarding the toggle slap question of the Russian ammo vs. Winchester White Box, a trip to the shooting range this morning yielded unclear results. The degree of damage to the various strips of blue masking tape is very hard to read as it was fairly minor, the damage is inconsistent from one test group to the next, and I noticed that I was damaging the tape simply by loading the pistol from an empty chamber/lowered toggle attitude.
So the results are inconclusive, yet at the same time are conclusive enough for me, at least, to be comfortable occasionally using the steel cased Russian ammo in the Luger.
Test gun was a 1936 model, nearly matching and normally a good functioning gun. Of course a "G. T. special" mag. was used...
Tape is grouped by the ammo used and the damaged areas are along the upper edges. The left strip is after 2 shots, the center and right strips are both after 5 shots. The last pair is using reloaded 115 gs. cast bullets driven by 4.7 grains of Unique, and probably shows the least damage of all.
Sorry that it is both inconclusive and unscientific, but for me, at least, it's good enough for government work.
dju