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any expert know the Grand Power K100 and grain 9mm

first_timerfirst_timer Member Posts: 357 ✭✭✭
edited February 2008 in Ask the Experts
Are there any experts here that are familiar with Slovakian "Grand Power K100" semi-auto, and more particulaly what grain of 9mm ammo would work best?

I'm acquiring 115 grain ammo in advance of my delivery of it since it will be imported soon.

Could you tell me, please?
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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Go to your closest Wally World. Buy the 100 round boxes of White Box Winchester FMJ's, for practice/training ammo. Buy the 115 hollow points made by whoever, for serious social purposes. The 115 grain modern H-P's made by all the companies, will all do a adequate job for self-defense purposes.
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  • first_timerfirst_timer Member Posts: 357 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    rufe-snow,
    I have Considerable experience with .40 caliber pistols.

    The reason I asked about grain load in the ammo, is because I have seven .40 Cal. pistols, and two .45s(no 9mms until I get the K100 soon)...many of great reputation and quality...and I've experience both occasional FTE and FTF jams in them when I switched from WWB(Winchester White Box)180 grain to WWB 165 grain factory Winchester ammo.

    And these were some of my favorite quality guns....Subcompact Sig P239 and Standard size Baby Desert Eagle to name a couple (it seems there were 2 other good brands that did it too). And it REALLY bothered me to see happen after being flawless 100% with 180 grain .40 Cal. factory ammo.

    The K100 will be the only 9mm I have ever bought and have no experience if they are similar to grain load sensitivity....just wondered if it might "prefer" heavier loads too....before I go and get about 1000 rounds(to save for future ammo price increases) andend up with that many jamming Winchester White Box ammo. that I won't use!

    Are you knowledgable about the K100....or Slovakia ammo to compare with US WWB ammo grain?
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  • dcs shootersdcs shooters Member Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The NATO 9mm ammo is 124gr. stuff. You should get a box of each weight and see what the gun likes.
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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by first_timer

    Are you knowledgable about the K100....or Slovakia ammo to compare with US WWB ammo grain?



    I don't know didly squat about the K 100 or the Slovakian ammo it's was made for?

    Last time I bought a box of WWB from Wally World it ran me about $12 for 100. If you got enough money to buy this K 100, you should have enough left over to spring for a hundred round box of WWB from W.W.. The results firing this ammo, will address your concerns regarding its functioning. My 2?.
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  • first_timerfirst_timer Member Posts: 357 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's now 19$ for WWB box 100 round 9mm ammo at WalMart....and going up monthly (In all calibers)!!
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  • first_timerfirst_timer Member Posts: 357 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I just asked the question on a Canadian gun forum.
    The have had the K100 for about 6 months up there.

    The answer I got was that it will gobble up anything from 155 to 147 with no problems.

    Boy I wish my eight .40 caliber pistols were so accomidating!
    I presume it is the higher recoil of the .40s that prefers at least 180 grain ammo to not jam so often as with lower grain loaded ammo.
    (or possibly it is partially due to the rotating barrel of the K100)

    Just in case, I just odered 500 rounds of 124 grain 9mm ammo. which I was told is the standard NATO 9mm round.

    thanks
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