use of 45 ACP +P ammo

Question
QUESTION: Hi! This is Rickie Austria from the Philippines, I was on a firing range this afternoon to check if +P ammo can feed and
fire on my Rock Island commander size pistol, I load one pc of
the magnatech 45 ACP +P JHP with my pistol, then try to cocked
the slide and pull the trigger but it did not fire. I cleared
the chamber to check but the bullet jammed inside and have to cleared and rock the chamber twice in order to unload it.
I load it again and fired it and it went on. Kindly give me
some tips or suggestion if I can still used this kind of ammo. Thanks



ANSWER: Well, obviously not!

Any ammunition that works that poorly in the gun is due to the ammunition, the gun or both.

From the way you describe it, is sounds like a bad lot of ammunition. I'd get rid of it.

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QUESTION: Thanks for your reply, from now on I will not use that kind of
ammunition with my firearm. I check the size it looks like
much bigger in size compare to the regular 45ACP. Like a hybrid
ammo. What kind of ammo would you suggest for small barrel pistol like commander size? thanks

Answer
The 1911 design was adapted by the US military in that year, but was designed by John Browning in 1908, making the design about 100 years old now.

Compared to modern pistols, the 1911 has a high rate of unreliability with regard to feeding.

Some of the really high-end 1911s will feed rounds such as Remington Golden Sabers with relative reliability (less reliable than a modern design, but about as good as with ball ammunition).

However, you would be wise to put at least 200 rounds of what you intended to carry through the gun to check for reliability before depending on it.

In something like the Springfield XD, I like the Remington Golden Saber, Federal HydraShok, and Winchester SXT in .45 ACP. If I were going to rely on a 1911, however, the only thing I would trust in it is 230 gr. ball ammunition.

In smaller diameter projectiles, expansion is paramount.  In a .45 projectile expansion is not as much of an issue because the bullet itself is big and heavy.  Because reliability is the first order of business in a defensive handgun, if I were going to rely on any of the number of 1911s I've owned over the years for self defense, the only thing I would load in it would be military hard ball (230 gr. FMJ).