Posted September 29, 2016 12:29 pm by Comments

By Patrick Sweeney

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If you spend enough time as a gun writer, you risk getting pretty blasé about ammunition. Everyone has something new, everyone claims to have the most accurate, the best expanding, the best for werewolves, zombies, thugs, despots and deer. But in my job, it all goes downrange the same way, in the course of work.

So I have to confess that I was not all that excited when Creedmoor came calling.

“Yea, I’ll test some,” I said. Send me a bunch and I’ll give it a go.” I mean, how much fun can it be?

Two-inch groups at 25 yards were the norm for the 185-grain XTPs when fired from the author’s Hoss 1911. And it easily hit gongs at 100 yards.

When samples arrived I took them to the range along with a bunch of other guns and gear, and did my chrono work at the end of the session. I had other things higher on my list, and if they ran over, well, the Creedmoor could just wait. I had the time, so I ran the three loads I had over the chrono. Well, actually, I ran them past the chrono, since I now use a Labradar—radar, no sky screens, …Read the Rest

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