Timber Wolf
Single-Sixer
Finally found some time to get out to the range with some old and old but new-to-me pistols this past Saturday. One of them was my recent pawn-shop-rescue 9mm Speed Six, and I like it a lot just like I knew I would. I had filled several Ranch Products full-moon and third-moon clips with some ancient 9mm cast reloads I wanted to be shed of. They were loaded with a funky Lee tumble lube truncated cone bullet that looks like heck but actually feeds great and shoots very accurately through almost every semi-auto 9mm I have tried it in. I loaded them as cast and aloe-lubed without sizing and they may be a little fat. I know they shot very accurately out of the Speed Six. They are every bit as accurate as I can shoot a snub revolver anyway. The cylinder did hang up a couple of times when using the full moons but never with the third moons. I don't really know why except I suppose the third moons just allow things to even out and lay flat and not allow "tolerance stacking" to bind the cylinder. I will try some factory 9mm and see if I can duplicate the binding. I also like the way the third-moons load a little better than the full-moons. With these reloads I had to really wiggle and hold my mouth just right and stuff to get all six to align and drop in all at once. I had not noticed this the few times I loaded round profiled factory ammo in the cylinder. The little third-moons drop in nice and are pretty quick to insert the cartridges into too. The loaded third moons also fit in a regular ammo box. I am glad they work well as I bought a 100 of them and three of them are still cheaper than one full moon! I also got a 100 of the .45 ACP size third-moons and will be interested to see how they work and if I like them as well in my Colt & S&W .45 ACP revolvers. I had some issues with another pistol and the range was pretty crowded and my daughter did not want to shoot but heck, even a bad time at the range is better than working or cutting the grass!
