Speer Short Barrel Ammo

[dmac]

Anyone have any experience with the Speer short barrel ammo? Specifically I want to know about the 135 .357 and the 135 grain .38+P in lightweight J Frames.

Thanks

[DoubleJ]

a quick search revealed the following, at least for 9mm (close enough, right?)
Thread Here

After many shows of looking for it, at Market Hall a week or two ago, I picked up a couple of boxes of the 124 grain +P stuff with the "Short Barrel" designation.

This morning a lady student came out to do some more break-in on a new Kahr CW9, so I set up the chronograph in advance and used the opportunity to do the testing below. The "standard velocity" shown is the same 124 grain load I've had in PM-9 for several years. The CW9 had only 100 rounds total of WWB down the barrel before the Gold Dots were fired. The other 2 pistols are far more broken in and were semi-dirty at the time.

edited to add: Sorry, I can't get the columns to format here, so just going to move "diffence" out by itself.
edited to add: that did not work either. 113 64 101 !!!

4-26-08 Gold Dot 124g 9mm

Std. Vel. +P "Short Barrel" Difference

Kahr PM-9 (2 3/4") 991 1,104 113 fps

Kahr CW-9 (3 1/4") 1,119 1,183 64 fps

Glock 19 (3.85") 1,121 1,222 101 fps

[Xander]

Anyone have any experience with the Speer short barrel ammo? Specifically I want to know about the 135 .357 and the 135 grain .38+P in lightweight J Frames.

Thanks

The short-barreled 135gr. .357 is the only .357 I find really manageable in my airweight S&W 340PD. It definitely burns better than full-power .357 in such a short barrel. I've used the .38SB load in my .357s, but since I don't have any .38 J-Frames, I don't see a reason to use it over the .357SB load. I had no issues with it though, it it's probably what I would carry if I had any .38s.

[dmac]

Anyone have any experience with the Speer short barrel ammo? Specifically I want to know about the 135 .357 and the 135 grain .38+P in lightweight J Frames.

Thanks

The short-barreled 135gr. .357 is the only .357 I find really manageable in my airweight S&W 340PD. It definitely burns better than full-power .357 in such a short barrel. I've used the .38SB load in my .357s, but since I don't have any .38 J-Frames, I don't see a reason to use it over the .357SB load. I had no issues with it though, it it's probably what I would carry if I had any .38s.

Well...I have both (38 for the wife and 357 for myself) so I bought a box of each. Looking at the charts they look pretty good. Heck...they've slowed the 357 down to less that 1000fps...that's pretty good.