steel1212 Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Thread drift Why doesn't the steel get calibrated with a chronoed load of 125 PF? Use powder that is insinsitive to temp and it should be close. If the PF floor is 125 why does production shooters HAVE to have it around 130 or higher because that is what WWB is? Thread drift off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tTito Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Thread driftWhy doesn't the steel get calibrated with a chronoed load of 125 PF? Use powder that is insinsitive to temp and it should be close. If the PF floor is 125 why does production shooters HAVE to have it around 130 or higher because that is what WWB is? Thread drift off The clubs I shoot at don't calibrate the pepper poppers for club matches. I'm guaranteed to have problems unless I turn up the heat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noah Gladstone Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 132PF 147grain 9mm I find that this does a very good job on poppers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPatterson Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Thread driftWhy doesn't the steel get calibrated with a chronoed load of 125 PF? Use powder that is insinsitive to temp and it should be close. If the PF floor is 125 why does production shooters HAVE to have it around 130 or higher because that is what WWB is? Thread drift off Probably because it is difficult to develop a load of 125 Pf consistantly. See rule 5.6.2.1 & 5.6.2.3. Also how to get the same velocity from different guns of the same barrel length or from a 4" glock & a 5" XD. Most Production shooters are using a 130Pf load to allow for the 5% chrono variance (131.25). USPSA is doing all it can to insure the loads used to calibrate poppers is as close to minimum Pf as it is possible for a commercial reloader to produce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoMiE Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 For those who run 125 to 130pf, please read Appendix C1, item 2 of the 01-20004 rulebook. One of our up and coming Production shooters used to run at 128pf with some real consistent ammo and got dinged more than once due to some borderline poppers. A low in the calibration zone hit from the shooter and it would stand. A high in the calibration hit with 130pf ammo by the calibration officer and it would fall. He quit running his ammo that low and bumped it up to 135pf. End of problems. I also used to run 128~129PF, but went to 134PF after being bitten by the calibration bug. Steel goes down now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskySig Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 I shoot factory 9mm ammunition out of my Sig P226. I chrono'd 115gr Federal American Eagle a couple months back at 127.7. At the Area 1 match a few weeks back I was shooting 115gr Blazer Aluminum which chrono'd at 128.6. I'm hoping to play around with some handloads during the winter months. A friend gave me some of his IPSC World Shoot ammo and I'd like to duplicate it. mattk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1911onr Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 My load (4.2 VVN320 over 124gn HAPs) chrono'd at 1050 (130PF) at the VA-MD sectionals in my Sig P226-9. It was cool with 100% cloud cover. Same load in my STI 5" 9mm Rangemaster chrono'd at over 1100 (137pf) at the Keystone Cup. It was >90 degrees and zero cloud cover. There's normally a 10-15 FPS difference in the guns, the rest is heat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gose Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 (edited) ~137 in my G34 to make sure I can use the same ammo in my G17 and SP01 (~132 for both) and still make minor. Edited August 28, 2007 by gose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFD Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Not Production, but my wife's Limited minor .40 loads are around 140 PF. To me, getting much lower than that has a noticable unappreciated effect on steel. I shoot the same PF on my .38 Super ESP loads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trini Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 I've been running a 142 PF using MG 115 JHP's with WSL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWBooth Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 I shoot 137 PF. with a 165 zero bullet, and titegrp. out of a S&W 4006 5". It seems to do a good job on steel, and believe it or not, seems to recoil less than a 9mm. JWB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ks-shooter Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 (edited) 138-140PF using 3.5 of Titegroup, Win SPP with a 180gn FP seated to 1.12 using an EGW undersizing die fired out of an XD Tactical Edited September 2, 2007 by ks-shooter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XD Niner Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 I keep mine at 130 as a minimum. A couple of points higher is just fine and I can't discern any difference anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3gunnah Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 130 or so enough to easly take down steel is all I feel ya need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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