Untidy_Harold
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My '60s era Llama 1911 feeds plated hollow points just fine, as long as I keep the OAL between 1.235 - 1.240".
T. O'Heir said:The associate is confused. Mind you, there's no such thing as "defensive" ammo. Any ammo, cast bullets included, is defensive.
"...to only be used with ball ammo..." That's just mythical nonsense. In the old days, that being about 30 or so years ago, 1911A1 style pistols didn't come out of the factory ready to feed SWC's easily. They do now. It's really just a slight modification to the feed ramp.
"...hard ball 230 grain load was known to knock a man down with one well placed hit..." That's mythical nonsense too. No pistol round will do that. Physics doesn't allow it.
RickB said:That's sort of like the difference between a "carry gun" and a "range gun"; if I never shot my carry gun at the range it would never be shot, so, isn't it a range gun?
There are three distinct styles of feed lips available on .45 ACP magazines to accommodate the different styles of bullets. They are Hard Ball, Wadcutter, and Hybrid. A person who shoots wadcutter style (or blunt nose) bullets in a magazine with standard round nose lips may(or may not) find he has a problem with feeding even if his feed ramp is modified to accommodate "defensive ammo".The associate is confused. Mind you, there's no such thing as "defensive" ammo. Any ammo, cast bullets included, is defensive.
"...to only be used with ball ammo..." That's just mythical nonsense. In the old days, that being about 30 or so years ago, 1911A1 style pistols didn't come out of the factory ready to feed SWC's easily. They do now. It's really just a slight modification to the feed ramp.
"...hard ball 230 grain load was known to knock a man down with one well placed hit..." That's mythical nonsense too. No pistol round will do that. Physics doesn't allow it.
The hard ball 230 grain load was known to knock a man down with one well placed hit.
Did he also advise you that you don't even have to make a good, center mass shot. Hitting a 200 pound man in the pinky finger with a 45 will knock him off his feet?and the associate that was helping me advised me to not use defensive ammo in my 1911 because 1911 weren't made to use the flatter hollow point ammo and to only be used with ball ammo.