Picked up a box of the Hornady 230 gr. XTP bullets yesterday and loaded up a small bunch
with 6.5 gr. of Unique to see how they would perform and function in my Springfield XDE.
Did a water jug test and a 6 shot run at my target from a 20 ft. distance. Bullet stopped in 5th jug.
Don't know how the 3 smaller jugs figure in but this is the result.
Results looked very good to me and these could be a nice SD round.
Have yet to try them in my Ruger Cmd 1911 and will try that next.
COL on these was 1.230 and my Chrony was having issues so no speed on these but
load data suggest 850-880 FPS depending on barrel length.
Target shooting results here https://youtu.be/YuWLrRkWUd8
with 6.5 gr. of Unique to see how they would perform and function in my Springfield XDE.
Did a water jug test and a 6 shot run at my target from a 20 ft. distance. Bullet stopped in 5th jug.
Don't know how the 3 smaller jugs figure in but this is the result.
Results looked very good to me and these could be a nice SD round.
Have yet to try them in my Ruger Cmd 1911 and will try that next.
COL on these was 1.230 and my Chrony was having issues so no speed on these but
load data suggest 850-880 FPS depending on barrel length.
Target shooting results here https://youtu.be/YuWLrRkWUd8