I originally meant to put this in the last Houston gathering thread but forgot. At that meet-up, we were shooting several things over the chrono, pretty much at random. So instead of just throwing out the results, I decided to post them here in case anyone can use any of this info.
All figures are the average of five shots. Here’s what we got:
I found some of the numbers on here interesting.
All figures are the average of five shots. Here’s what we got:
- 9mm, 115 grain
- Glock 24 long slide with 9mm Wolf conversion
- Blazer aluminum - 1240 fps
- PMC - 1167 fps
- Beretta Nano
- Blazer aluminum -1109 fps
- PMC - 1032 fps
- Kel Tec Sub 2000
- Blazer aluminum - 1360 fps
- Glock 24 long slide with 9mm Wolf conversion
- .38 Special 148-grain HBWC
- 3“ J-frame
- Fiocchi - 533 fps
- Western (~40 years old) - 709 fps
- 3“ J-frame
- .22WMR, 30-grain
- Kel Tec PMR 30
- Hornady V-Max -1597 fps
- Kel Tec PMR 30
- .22 TCM, 40-grain
- RIA 1911
- Armscorp - 2138 fps
- RIA 1911
- .45 ACP 230-grain ball
- EAA Witness Elite Limited
- PMC - 833 fps
- Rem UMC - 845 fps
- Federal Range and Target - 812 fps
- Winchester White Box - 860 fps
- Glock 21
- Winchester White Box - 872
- EAA Witness Elite Limited
I found some of the numbers on here interesting.
- WWB .45 was faster out of the shorter barrel of the Glock than from the longer barrel of the EAA. Glock makes a big deal out of their superior rifling, don’t they? I wonder...
- Armscorp .22TCM breaks 2100 fps from a 1911. Neat!
- Fiocchi .38 wadcutters are s-l-o-w. The ISSF Centerfire Pistol event is shot (usually indoors) at 25 yards max so perhaps the Euro makers of .32 and .38 wadcutter ammo figure ~500 fps is enough. In NRA Conventional Pistol where we shoot our wadcutter guns (usually outdoors) at 50 yards, will performance suffer? I don’t know; I’ll have to go back to the range and do some accuracy testing at 50 yards to find out.
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