IWI Masada Rounds 1701-2000

It's a beautiful sunny day today, in contrast to the chilling, windy and overcast day we had yesterday. So to the range I went.

One nice thing about the Corona-pocalypse - the speed limit on all highways has been unofficially raised to 90 mph and I got to and from the range in excellent time. I'm not saying my car was happily going 100 mph at times, but merely suggesting such was comfortably possible and was only keeping up with the flow of very sparse traffic.

I fired 250 rounds of Federal Black Pack 9mm and 50 rounds of Winchester 147 gr hollowpoints through the IWI Masada today.

Zero failures or hesitations.

I shot the plate rack, clearing them regularly in under 6 seconds from a holster, which still can stand some improvement.

Then to do some more finely tuned practice I shot some 5x5 drills - 5 yards, 5 rounds, under five seconds.

I was pretty happy doing it consistently under four seconds with all hits, with the best time being 3.59, which of course I fasiled to take a picture of. Still, I think I can, with more practice, do it faster.

The Trijicon SRO definitely makes a difference. Shooting the 5x5 drill with the Walther P99 without the dot, I was consistently slower, and typically at least a full second slower.

I then shot Dot Torture with the Masada and it was wonderfully humbling. In short I need more practice. Almost shot a perfectly clean run and had one shot just outside the circle to ruin it. Drat. Dot Torture did help me really dial in the SRO however, as shooting a plate is a lot larger target than the dots on dot torture and I had the dot set before just low enough to miss until it was dialed in.

That's 2,000 rounds through the IWI Masada with no cleaning or lubrication since beginning the test. Zero failures of any sort. I'd say its a nice, ergonomic, and suitably reliable firearm for carry.

HK P30SK - 2,001 And Done

With a beautiful day expected this morning, Leah and I headed to the range. It was high time to finish off the P30SK 2,000 round test.

251 rounds fired through the P30SK with zero malfunctions or issues of any kind. This include 201 rounds of Remington 115 grain FMJ and 50 rounds of Winchester Ranger 147 grain hollow points.

So that's 2,001 rounds fired through with one malfunction due to an ammunition defect, not to the pistol itself, and no lubrication or cleaning since the shooting of the rounds began.

In short, it's a nice compact carry firearm, and nicely accurate.

The hammer allows you to safely holster it while appendix carrying by putting your thumb on the hammer while holstering, preventing any mistakes while doing so.

The LEM trigger does take getting used to compared to a striker-fired pistol, but once you figure out the trigger pull you can hit your targets nicely.