A Generous Reader sent me some ammo!
Five boxes of 124 grain practice ammo, to help see if the Arex likes that better than 115 grain. Two boxes of .44 Magnum reloads and…
Two different types of .44 snakeshot. This is interesting to me because I had a bad experience with snakeshot – the kind with the blue cups – early in my revolver days. I loaded the pistol with snakeshot, fired one off, and the recoil knocked the cups off all the unfired rounds. Tiny little pieces of shot everywhere.
But here’s a box of shot held in with some sort of metal plug, which may contain the shot more securely? Guess we’ll find out – I want to test that.
Speaking of testing stuff…
Right after lunch I went out to the range with a magazine of 115 grain Blazer and a box of 124 grain. I got one failure to feed with the 115 grain – and not a single one in fifty rounds of the heavier stuff. So. Considering that the Arex has never once jammed on the expensive stuff, it apparently just likes heavier bullets. Which I had already sort of come to that conclusion anyway, so…Cool.
Homebrew snakeshot loads using gas checks for top/bottom wad. Classic DIY method.
CZ,
Not only gas checks for the top but the cases are .445 Super Mag so much longer than a regular .44 Mag.
I wonder what the reason for the jams with the 115 grain ammo is. I guess the pistol is set up to use NATO ammo which is 124 grain.
Anyway, to whomever sent this gift, you are a good person.
Very likely has to do with the recoil impulse from the heavier bullets on the slide retraction speed . . . or something like that.