P6 ammo preferences

[11Z50]

I took my P6 out for another shoot today, this time with a variety of HP ammo. It shot my favorite defense load, WW 115 Silvertip, without a hitch. Very accurate as well. In fact, all of the various HP's in 115gr shot well. I tried some 147gr Hydra-shok, and had several FTF.

It looks like as long as the HP bullet is close to a ball round in profile, it will work. The 147gr rounds are somewhat longer and seem to catch on the feed ramp.

[wilit]

What year is your P6? Supposedly they changed the feed ramp sometime in the late 80's or early 90's. My 10/81 built P6 seems to feed 115gr JHP's okay.

[11Z50]

Mine's an 8/81. It will shoot 115's all day long without a hitch, either ball or HP.

[daemonite]

Mine is 12/83

Eats 147gr Winchester White Box JHP fine, 115gr Remington JHP fine, feeds Speer 124gr +P, Golden Sabers and Hornady XTP.

Seems to enjoy the Golden Sabers with amazing accuracy!

[Spyder]

I just shot a bunch of 115 gr white box hollow points out of mine tonight. 10/81, with no failures of any kind.

[SeANMcBAY]

All this talk about Calgunners pre 90's P6's shooting JHP without a hitch makes me think perhaps it was just bad springs that was cause the problems with other peoples and it just turned into a big rumor?

[tonelar]

I have no clue, mine's a 98 and it's devoured everything including 147 JHP subsonics. The g/f took hers home, so I haven't been able to do a side by side, although hers shot 115 and 124 grn JHPs with vigor.

As far as the weak spring concept;
I've seen and handled a dozen or so P6s and none of them show the kind of (shooting) wear that'd lead me to suspect any of them had shot out springs.

[Glock_XXI]

Where are you guys able to check the date of your P6's??

Thanks

[11Z50]

The date is stamped into the right (starboard) side of the slide as you would hold it to shoot, forward of the ejection port. It's "8/81" on mine.

As for the "spring crisis" I don't know that it's such an issue. The feeding problem with mine is caused by the angle of the ramp+long bullets. This is a non-issue for me since my P6 shoots my favorite 9mm defense load and ball flawlessly. The 147 Hydra-shok thing was just a test. I'm on approximately 300 rounds of 115gr thru my P6 with no stoppages.

I suppose that one could replace all the springs out of an abundance of caution, but I don't intend to do that with my P6. As my old Grandad said, "If it works, don't fix it."

[wilit]

Where are you guys able to check the date of your P6's??

Thanks

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kcmh/2179033466/

Take a look at the slide by the front sight. You see in this pic the number stamped 9 78, that means it was built September of 1978.

[daemonite]

Add the Cor-Bon 115 and 125gr JHP's to the list of things my P6 has consumed.

Only thing is, they seem to get stuck in the chamber if I hand rack it after chambering a round. Happens in my CZ too, so I'm guessing the case is a tad larger then normal 9mm rounds. I wish I had some digital calipers.