New Member here down in south Lousiana...
I just hooked up with another BT - this time a .380 Combat from Budsgunshops and am hoping that some of you folks here in Bersa Country can share some first hand experience with Precision ONe's 95 gr HP/XTP & 100 gr FMJ. The highly impressive performance report that S.T.B. at AmmoQuest posted for Precision ONe HP/XTP on Youtube was one of the reasons I decided to give the BT .380 a test drive.
Doc
So, I took my Bersa Thunder 380 Plus to the range today and test fired a lot of ammo.
The following is not in order fired.
I fired 50 rounds of Precision One’s “REMAN” (re-manufactured) FMJ (ball) ammo,3 and 1/3 magazines. Not one hiccup.
I fired 50 rounds of Precision One’s HP/XTP JHP, again 3 1/3 magazines. Again, not even a hint of a hiccup.
I also fired 50 rounds of Federal PTD FMJ "ball" with no hiccups.
And yes I waited until the barrel cooled down between bouts.
BTW, all the holes in the targets were within the 9 ring at about 10 yards (I didn’t measure). That's close enough for me.
Now for the interesting part. In order to test fire all those rounds, I decided to empty the Underwood Xtreme Defender (XD) rounds that were already in the magazines, by shooting them. So I walked up to the firing line, fired 40 rounds of the Underwood ammo — Not one damn hiccup. No jams, no FTFs, no FTEs. So what the heck is going on here?
Well, as I thought about it, the first time I tried the Underwood XD ammo, I had four FTF in 20 rounds. That was using onlyf one of the magazines I have for the pistol. Today I used four different magazines. I now believe that one of the five magazines I have, caused the original FTFs. So now I’m going to label, inspect and measure the lips on all the magazines. I’ve ordered more of the Underwood Xtreme Defender ammo and in a week or so, when it gets here, I plan to reload and test all the magazines with that ammo again. This is getting to be an expensive endeavour, but I would like to have three magazines loaded with the Underwood XD and two with the Precision One HP/XTP.
So...on with the testing.