Posted: 8/22/2008 2:28:21 PM EDT
| Is the Springfield MC Operator built to handle +P ammo? I've got one and I was wondering if it would do any damage to the gun if I fired a box of Horady TAP FPD +P? |
Any modern production pistol should be able to fire a box of +P ammo without issues. It might shorten the service live, let's say if the pistol could be expected to maintain reliability and accuracy for 30k rounds of standard ammo, it might only fire 10k rounds of +P. But I don't think you have a box of 10k rounds.  I don't fire +P ammo in my alloy framed pistols very much, but do so all the time with my steel frame guns. |
So you dont think 20 rounds would make a difference at all? |
| Limited use should be fine, but why beat up your pistol for virtually no benefit. Use the Federal personal defense HydraShok instead if you really need a hollowpoint. It is a standard pressure load. Interestingly enough, when I asked Charlie at Novaks what I should use for a home defense load in the Series 80 they built for me, he suggested American Eagle hardball because you can afford to shoot a lot of it, it always goes bang, it feeds super reliable, and a center of mass hit with hardball will put anybody down. |