MemphisMechanic

I haven’t worked one up to hit a known PF yet sorry. Ask @B_RAD

If you score it really cheap, buy it to resell to to your friends. Guys with 1050s don’t mind military brass at all.

For the record, 3.9-4.0 titegroup is all you need to be in the 135-148 PF neighborhood with a plated 115 too.

Cuz, 3.6-3.7 titegroup will run in your PCC just fine at a PF of around 135-140.

You’re right. Checked mine. I never noticed. And the OP is shooting Open, so we know his pic mount has been removed.

Agreed. Be CERTAIN it’s not in auto. Hold down the + button too long and it’ll sneak back out of manual mode into auto. And do exactly this.

WSF is a great powder and would quite possibly outshoot prima V if my pistol testing carries over to PCCs. But I've never had stellar accuacy with titegroup in any handgun or a PCC. Other powders nearly always outperform it, but it continues to be the most popular recommendation because most USPSA shooters don't really do any load development for accuracy, whatsoever. If it's soft, the load is easy to copy from the internet and get right right the first try, it makes PF, and it's affordable? They run it.

Close! But technically, we hunt for the flattest shooting load. Whatever keep the dot movement down between shots. That sometimes is and sometimes is not the softest shooting load. I run 115s that are a bit snappier than most, but the dot nearly sits still between shots. Your accuracy comment was spot on, however as my current load isn't good past 20-25 yds. Most USPSA guys won't admit to it, but they haven't really done any accuracy workups on their ammo. Not to the extent that someone who regularly shoots 100+ would anyway.

@4n2t0 I shoot plated 115s and titegroup in PCC because I have a ton of it I'm trying to get rid of, and the accuracy is sufficient for the task. But if I switch to prima V at the same PF the gun goes from 3" to 1" groups @ 25yd. Through the same powder measure and the same barrel, I see triple the SD and ES. For whatever reason, through a PCC I always get an SD of 30-40 with titegroup, and velocities vary by almost 10 percent. Have your sarcastic fun, but this one's based upon chrono-verified fact, and not opinion.

The WCC headstamp was one of my leading causes of jams and crushed primers on my 650. Now that I run a 1050 I don't notice them at all...

I also really like Vectan BA9.5 for 9 minor, and it’s still easy to find. Soft, accurate, etc. If I were buying more it’d probably be that.

You can go directly to the loads recommended. They’re all under that point. And unless you have a really good starting point (thousands of people use those loads nationwide) start at minimum and work up with a chrono. You are playing with explosives you’ll be holding in your hands when you detonate them, after all.

Sport Pistol is vastly cleaner and more accurate than Titegroup. I’d make that my #1 choice: it’s designed to replicate N320 and it does it well.

You aren’t increasing chamber pressure by moving to a longer barrel. Continue to shoot your handgun load. Reading primers is more guesswork than science anyway.

Yep. I tested it. A crude welded-up fixture that placed a fixed weight atop whichever spring you inserted. It compressed far less than a brand new 11lb ISMI Glock spring. Less than a 13, or a 15. It was a nearly perfect match for a 17lb factory Glock spring. I sent the data to my contact who forwarded it to the engineers... where it apprently went nowhere.

And, at least two years ago, their information from the German engineers was off. The spring rate given to me in Newtons by a high-placed friend who worked there? It converted to 11 pounds. Um. No. I tested the factory spring and it matched the compression rate of 16-17 pound springs for Glock and others. Hopefully they updated that. A 13 pound spring runs really well in a PPQ/Q5. It’ll feel like it comes out of battery too easily due to the full powered striker spring, but I’ve run 13 pound Glock springs on my custom rod flawlessly. Just change them every 5k or so, and you have no issues.

There has to be a plan. They know everyone is going to want to change the recoil spring who shoots it in competition.

Never having shot an X5, what don’t you like about it?

I see. My mistake. Too many guys talking about both models of Walther in this thread. I do not own a steel frame and I do not plan to purchase one. Where does the interference occurs? How is the polymer guide rod shaped differently to clear it?

No. I dislike captured rods. Uncaptured goes in just as easily and it’s easier to respring and clean the gun. It’s just a 1/4” rod with a flange on one end that mimics the factory guide rod.

For the record those are also the dimensions of a standard PPQ and Q5’s guide rod. I’m not sure how our friend is saying he took the factory rod apart and put a Glock spring on it, because M&P and Glock flat wire springs also fit a 1/4” guide rod.

I has a machinist turn me a guide rod in stainless that fits the walther, but with 1/4” shaft. Drop a 13lb Glock spring onto it and go.

The standard Q5 Match is legal. The slide is identical; nothing has changed in how the slide is made. Ironically, that slide is actually almost an ounce heavier than the standard 5” PPQ M2 slide.

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