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Re: Poll: Which ammo gives you the least failure to fires out of a PT series pistol

Generally anything with a brass case should feed. Some guns don't like the Blazer aluminim or the Wolf (or other brands) steel case so if you are going to try either of those, I'd recommend to start with only 1 box so you aren't stuck with say 950 rounds that your gun doesn't like.

Then again, an occasional FTF might be good malfunction practice....

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Re: Poll: Which ammo gives you the least failure to fires out of a PT series pistol

Other: It will eat anything it's given, including 9x18. Don't ask.

Josh <><

I'm not asking as there is a dimension difference in diameter between 9mm (aka 9x19) and 9mmM or 9x18 (which is technically 9.2x18).

In order to figure out what happened I grabbed some 9x18 ammo from the safe and the barrel of my 9mm XD. Joshua, you are likely lucky that it didn't fully chamber as it might have gone badly with an over size bullet not wanting to go down the barrel.

But yes, I'll believe that it fed, once.

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Re: Poll: Which ammo gives you the least failure to fires out of a PT series pi

I wouldn't even put that in the Emergency category. You are lucky to not have blown something up. 380 would be in the emergency category as it SHOULDN'T damage or blow the firearm. I don't know if the old Blazer Alum ammo used an undersized bullet or not, your box likely did. Otherwise....

I should state that I have not attempted to fire 380 out of a 9mm. I have heard that you can fire it through a 9x18 barrel but your accuracy will be poor and your slide may not cycle totally/reliably.

I feel that I should also state that by blow the firearm I mean a catastrophic failure of the breech/action to contain blast of the cartridge. Yes, technically when you fire a cartridge you are igniting a small explosion which pushes the bullet (the weakest "wall" of the chamber) down the barrel. The other common term for this is a KA-BOOM (usually but not necessarily justifiably attributed to Glocks).

Oh, and I would have went into that gunshop and politely told the guy that he sold me unsafe ammo. One of my last comments would have been that if there had been an injury he likely would not have talked to me about it, he would have talked to an attorney. Yes, I had a similar conversation a while back with a local tire shop that couldn't bother to tighten (AT ALL) the lug nuts after mounting tires on my Wrangler. My gf almost lost a tire going down the highway. As it was she lost all 5 lugnuts. Got lucky, no damage to the TJ (tire didn't come all the way off) and I had other lugnuts that would work

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