Shoepop

As you are aware either .355 or .356, 115 & 125's are fine. The deciding factor for YOU should be what shoots best in YOUR pistol and which impulse you prefer.

180's for ME, like some posters said anything over 180 seems sluggish anything less to snappy, but then again some like snappy so it comes down to what are you more comfortable and shoot better with.

I'm a right hand shooter left eye dominant. I move whatever I'm shooting to the left eye and keep them both open.

That would be a 'yoke' screw.

hop, I just stuck in the cylinder to see if would fit because of all the talk about oversize throats in a lot of original 25-2 cylinders. I never actually fitted it but it look's like a regular 625 cylinder with correct throat could be fitted W/O to much trouble. I was just curious and playing around.

Notice anything different

I just gave a quick 'eyeball' side by side with my 25-2 and a titanium cylinder I had laying around and they look CLOSE. I also have some steel 625's I will dig out. Just for the hey of it I will measure and see. Since my 25-2 shoots fine it will be for FYI as well as mine.

Well, I must have lucked out (for a change). This one shoots lead and jacketed as well as my 625-8 PC or 625-8 4". I looked at the front sight under magnifier's last night and I sure can't see where it's pinned. I can remedy that on my mill in short order. I also measured throats .456. Thanks all.

I preformed a search and found one reference to 6" barrel 25-2 but nothing definitive. Everything refers to 6 1/2". The front sight is integral with the barrel and it has target trigger and hammer.

I had a bad experience with Peltor, a warranty related problem on a 1 month old set of muff's. In my case VERY POOR customer service so I now run Dillon's.

Charlie, if you find one in your area be leery of promised repair time. Some smiths are well intentioned, tend to be optimistic but in reality, well you know. I have sent 4 S&W revolvers in for repair for customers in the past 2 months. Yes, they will tell you 6+ weeks, seems like a CYA time but in all 4 instances I received them back in less that 3. The last two they even provided a UPS prepaid shipping label (without me asking) these were for 20 year old revolvers. So S&W may be the way to go.

It depend's on what you want the load to do. If your looking for maximum controllability, a nice smooth ride then use the 147 grain JHP's, They will turn the pumpkin into pie filling very nicely. Powder,3.3 grains of titegroup, 942 FPS out of an MP5. If you want to hose and just make nice round .355 hole's use any of the above data.

I have received JHP's from two major bullet manufactures that have had walnut media in the HP cavity from the factory. I would roughly estimate 2 per 100. I tumble 5 minutes with course walnut after loading no problems.

Well, how much would you save ordering from their catalog and then having to pay shipping?

Load longer, or send back to Para for repair. We had a shooter @ a match last weekend with a P-16, same problem, bullet nose jambed into feed ramp. He was shooting Winchester 180 white box and said he had same problem with Fiocchi. He had FTF every 6th or so rounds. After the match we loaded up all his mags with my reloads, 180 Zero JHP's, 1.180 OAL and he ran through 4 magazines as fast as he could pull the trigger and change mags with 0 malfunctions. Since he does not reload he sent the pistol back to Para. You are loading @ an OAL that should feed. S.A.A.M.I. spec's are min=1.085 max=1.135