Glock 43: Your Thoughts After Owning & Carrying for Awhile ?

[Eric_L]

I don't know from HST but standard pressure 124 gold dots don't expand. I run 147s, GDs or HSTs.

How do you know they don’t expand? I don’t need a resume, I am not busting your chops, I really want to know. Thank you.

E

[JAD]

How do you know they don’t expand? I don’t need a resume, I am not busting your chops, I really want to know. Thank you.

E

No worries: I watched @ChuckHaggard shoot a few into gelatin from a 43 at Tac Con 2016. @Tamara was standing nearby. Made me mad -- I like that load. I have gone to 147s.

[Eric_L]

No worries: I watched @ChuckHaggard shoot a few into gelatin from a 43 at Tac Con 2016. @Tamara was standing nearby. Made me mad -- I like that load. I have gone to 147s.

Did they shoot GD 147?

Thanks.

[Edster]

I'm not bothering to look it up, buy my recollection is that 115gr Lawman is loaded hot to resemble the recoil impulse of 124gr +P Gold Dots. If that's not quite correct somehow, I won't defend it.

Excellent. That makes sense when I compare velocities, too.

I just picked up some Fiocchi 115 grain at Academy because I lack patience. It supposedly does 1200 fps. I'll order some 115 Lawman, too.

[JAD]

Did they shoot GD 147?

Thanks.

Nope, but https://pistol-forum.com/showthread....l=1#post450046

[Duelist]

No worries: I watched @ChuckHaggard shoot a few into gelatin from a 43 at Tac Con 2016. @Tamara was standing nearby. Made me mad -- I like that load. I have gone to 147s.

I like that load, too. I used it in a P11 to euthanize a crippled deer on the side of the road once - it wasn’t ambulatory, but was sure trying hard to be. Penetrated trough the neck from just below the base of the skull and out through the trachea. So even from a 3” tube and not expanding, it will work if it hits what is needful. Of course, just about anything that will penetrate would have worked with that placement.

[CR78]

I have gone to 147s.

Apologies if you've already answered this - are you running a mag extension with 147 HSTs?

[JAD]

I don’t believe in mag extensions. Well, I believe they exist.

[newyork]

You mean you don’t like them?

[JAD]

I mean I don’t expect them to be as reliable as the originally designed magazine, and trading reliability for a small increment in capacity is not worth it to me.