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Luger load in Mak casing?
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<blockquote data-quote="ASP785" data-source="post: 2166478" data-attributes="member: 12170"><p>From Wikipedia:</p><p></p><p>"The 9×18mm Makarov is ballistically inferior to the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge. While there are no official SAAMI pressure specs for the 9×18mm Makarov cartridge, tests indicate that surplus ammunition develop pressures in the mid 20,000 psi, significantly less than the 35,000 psi or more generated by 9mm Parabellum loads.[4] As such it is designed to be used in low powered blowback semiautomatics, much like the .380 ACP cartridge, rather than locked breech designs encountered, but not always required, for higher pressure cartridges like the 9×19mm Parabellum."</p><p></p><p>I can tell you that I have fired a 380 case in my 9mm chambered gun before. The case got mixed up in my 9mm Luger brass. It cycled and shot fine. I didn't know it until I found it laying on my tarp with the rest of the casings. It happens.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ASP785, post: 2166478, member: 12170"] From Wikipedia: "The 9×18mm Makarov is ballistically inferior to the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge. While there are no official SAAMI pressure specs for the 9×18mm Makarov cartridge, tests indicate that surplus ammunition develop pressures in the mid 20,000 psi, significantly less than the 35,000 psi or more generated by 9mm Parabellum loads.[4] As such it is designed to be used in low powered blowback semiautomatics, much like the .380 ACP cartridge, rather than locked breech designs encountered, but not always required, for higher pressure cartridges like the 9×19mm Parabellum." I can tell you that I have fired a 380 case in my 9mm chambered gun before. The case got mixed up in my 9mm Luger brass. It cycled and shot fine. I didn't know it until I found it laying on my tarp with the rest of the casings. It happens. [/QUOTE]
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