I went to the range yesterday and fired 100 handloads out of my USP40C. I use a 95% of max load with Power-Pistol to keep the pressures really low, but the rounds still end up considerably hotter than most of the factory loads (around 500 ft-lbs of energy). After shooting these handloads exclusively for several weeks my groups have really tightened up, especially in double (triple, quadruple, etc) taps. Well, yesterday I ran out of handloads and went back to the (lighter) factory loads. It seemed that I had almost perfect control no matter how rapidly I fired ... didn't feel like a .22, but you get the idea. It's not the factory loads are inherently more accurate ... I've routinely slow fired equivalent groups with both ... it's that the lower recoil allowed me to acquire the target much more rapidly. Why wouldn't people routinely train with a hotter load than they carry? Or is that common, and I just finally figured it out for myself
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