Hershel_Van

Sounds good and thanks for the reply! I'll message you back after I've had a chance to try the 5 tungsten.

Great!

I've been running a 115 gr. plated at a little over 1200 fps (140 or so PF) in a 16" barrel with the original 4 weight 9mm SCS. With this setup, recoil was more pronounced than expected and my red dot pulled off hard to the 3:00 position. We all perceive recoil differently and I thought mine could be better so I installed the short stroke conversion kit and now have 3 tungsten and 2 stainless. This setup is noticeably better and my curiosity is killing me, ie, could it be even better so I ordered 2 more tungsten weights to try it with 5 total tungsten and hopefully those parts will be here soon.

Late last week I spoke with a rep at JP that shoots PCC in USPSA and he told me he's been on the same journey I'm on.  . He said his testing shows a carbine with a  longer barrel seems to benefit from heavier SCS mass and settled on 5 tungsten himself.  In the thread where you posted, if I remember correctly,  you like the 5 tungsten as well. I wondered if you're still running that setup? It seems to me that heavier mass would be good as long as you don't create bolt bounce.

Understandably this will eventually boil down to shooter skill over equipment, but I'd like to have the best setup possible and am interested in your thoughts.

Thanks, Alan