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I hope he is right

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JEVapa said these are worth every penny and it did cost a lot of pennies to get it. But I only had to give up 2K worth of them for it. I found what I think was a great deal on GunBroker. It was advertised as used in excellent condition. I think he understated it. There's not a mark on it. The mags don't even have any appreciable wear on them. As clean as it was on the inside, I guestimate it went to the range a couple of times. It's like getting a new gun that someone spent the coin to do some break in for me. I plan to put some rounds through it this afternoon and see how it does.

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From experience, anything with a fairly steep feed ramp, a la 1911s, will invariably be more accurate with 124gr and up bullets. I know, I know, y'all are saying "wut kinda bull shit" is this, but hear me out.
115 gr bullets are not very far into the mouth of the 9mm case. 124s and up are seated with much more of the bullet in the case. The 115s are not very supported by the case, because very little of the bullet is seated into the case. The 115s tend to "bend" going up a steep ramp as the case is still in the mag as the bullet is forced up the ramp. It is easy to see on a run out gauge, and " bent ammo" tends to start into the throat inconsistently. I learned this from Bruce Piatt and Jerry Michulek. I did a bunch of testing and damned if they weren't right.
Damn sweet pistol!
 
From experience, anything with a fairly steep feed ramp, a la 1911s, will invariably be more accurate with 124gr and up bullets. I know, I know, y'all are saying "wut kinda bull shit" is this, but hear me out.
115 gr bullets are not very far into the mouth of the 9mm case. 124s and up are seated with much more of the bullet in the case. The 115s are not very supported by the case, because very little of the bullet is seated into the case. The 115s tend to "bend" going up a steep ramp as the case is still in the mag as the bullet is forced up the ramp. It is easy to see on a run out gauge, and " bent ammo" tends to start into the throat inconsistently. I learned this from Bruce Piatt and Jerry Michulek. I did a bunch of testing and damned if they weren't right.
Damn sweet pistol!
Along that line of thinking, 150's even more accurate?

I buy the S&B 150 grain for my two 509's and they eat it up. It's stoopid accurate vs anything 115 grain I've run in them. Plus side is it's backyard quite with my can.
 
Can't say, 124gr don't tend to bend and anything heavier doesn't either. I'm not sure more is better because if they don't show signs of run out at 124 they don't at 147 etc.
 
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