Gewehrmutter
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Which defensive 9x18mm round do you prefer in your mak?
Which defensive 9x18mm round?
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Jody Hudson
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Magsafe, Norinco FMJ and Quik-Shok when Triton finally gets tired of listening to me whine and starts to make it.
Hornady XTP's get the vote in mine. Mild recoiling and with a wide mouth design that will ensure expansion. The HP cavity is almost the same size as the bullet diameter to start with.
I will say that it is slightly milder than most of the other offerings, but double taps are extremely controllable. I'll take a controllable load over 50 fps velocity any day.
Ohhh....and kinda on another subject, the grips on a MAK make a BIG difference. During a side by side comparison of Maks the other day my dads Russian .380 Mak recoiled more than my Bulgie Mak with 9x18. Or should I say "percieved recoil". His has standard slim issue type grips, mine have the fatter thumbrest type.
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RED
I will say that it is slightly milder than most of the other offerings, but double taps are extremely controllable. I'll take a controllable load over 50 fps velocity any day.
Ohhh....and kinda on another subject, the grips on a MAK make a BIG difference. During a side by side comparison of Maks the other day my dads Russian .380 Mak recoiled more than my Bulgie Mak with 9x18. Or should I say "percieved recoil". His has standard slim issue type grips, mine have the fatter thumbrest type.
Good Shooting
RED
Herr Walther
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Cor-Bon in my Mak. But my favorite 9x18 round is the 9mm Police.
Gewehrmutter
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Yeah, I did forgot to put the Federal Hi-Shok, Magsafe, and CorBons on the poll; sorry...
Two good things about the CCI Blazer load: 1) It uses the outstanding Gold Dot bullet, which is less likely than conventional JHPs to experience a core separation and fragment (an important consideration with low-penetrating rounds like .380, 9mm Mak, etc.); and 2) it is cheap to shoot.
For some reason, the E. German Mak I use doesn't like the XTP round, and will occasionally fail to feed.
I have some of the Federal Classic Hi-Shok, but haven't tried it yet. Still, as a general proposition, I prefer the Gold Dot bullets to the Hi-Shok, XTP, Sierra (CorBon) and God-knows-what bullet the Barnaul load uses.
For some reason, the E. German Mak I use doesn't like the XTP round, and will occasionally fail to feed.
I have some of the Federal Classic Hi-Shok, but haven't tried it yet. Still, as a general proposition, I prefer the Gold Dot bullets to the Hi-Shok, XTP, Sierra (CorBon) and God-knows-what bullet the Barnaul load uses.