Posted: 5/23/2006 2:26:07 PM EDT
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My .45 is keyholing! It is a brand new SA1911A1 GI. No damage to barrel crown, shooting AE ammo. 
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No advice but I hope this is a problem with your pistol and not the ammo, cause I just bought 500 rounds of the same ammo.......  Does it do it with other brands? How many rounds do you have through it?
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Everyone knows the bullets tumble when they hit you and keep tumbling until they find a blood vessel. They they straighten out and follow the artery or vein to your heart.
Are you sure that isn't .40 caliber ammo?  Tagged for interest. This is bizarre. |
| g3shooter: Your barrel is not stabliizing the bullet correctly. I would try another brand of ammo, if you still get keyholing, then I would return the gun to SA, and tell them what happen. You get keyholing when the barrel doesn't spin the bullet fast enough in order stabilize it's flight. |
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Take it apart and check the bore for leading, [have you shot lead bullets in the past?] how the rifling looks against another BBL and a ring that might indicate a squib load followed by a normal one. You could always have a bad batch of ammo with undersize bullets. Can you shoot in an area where you can recover a spent bullet? If it has worked fine in the past, I'd try another make of ammo before I start to worry. |
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is it rifled? don't laugh saw a new colt with a smooth bore at a gun show years ago keyholeing in a handgun is pretty unusal and indicates major problems send it to SA lately we have had a fair number of problems with springfield GIs had to send a few back nothing with the barrels or accracy problems though |
Thought: If the targets are just hanging, or the cardboard behind them is all shot up, try backing them with cardboard, foamboard, or whatever is handy. |
You don't know what the heck yer talkin' about. An AR is only supposed to WOUND the enemy. That ways it takes out 3 of them instead of just 1 cause his 2 buddies will have to carry him out.
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