sewerman68
05-14-2012, 08:00 PM
I was looking at my Bersa one day not long ago and noticed that it did not have much of a feed ramp. A round loaded in the magazine is almost dead even with the chamber. This got me to thinking that it might feed wadcutters. I ordered a few from Happy 7 at matts bullets and proceeded to load some up. It works surprisingly well I am pleased to say.
I started off with 2.1 gr of solo 1000. Very accurate but failed to cycle the action twice in 2 magazines. worked up to 2.5, no signs of flat primers or any thing to indicate high pressure, Seems rather sedate actually.
Oal, started off at .860 but got better function at .850. Sized at .356.
also worked up loads using 231 and silhouette. 231 worked very well at 3.2 gr accuracy and function wise.
Silhouette worked ok but was the least accurate. all of these rounds would penetrate 14 inches of wet phone book and cuts a nice wad doing it. I have had no failure to feeds or eject , except with my first loads and have burned up about 120 rounds on this experiment so far. Pictures will follow when my wife gets home.
I started off with 2.1 gr of solo 1000. Very accurate but failed to cycle the action twice in 2 magazines. worked up to 2.5, no signs of flat primers or any thing to indicate high pressure, Seems rather sedate actually.
Oal, started off at .860 but got better function at .850. Sized at .356.
also worked up loads using 231 and silhouette. 231 worked very well at 3.2 gr accuracy and function wise.
Silhouette worked ok but was the least accurate. all of these rounds would penetrate 14 inches of wet phone book and cuts a nice wad doing it. I have had no failure to feeds or eject , except with my first loads and have burned up about 120 rounds on this experiment so far. Pictures will follow when my wife gets home.