Handgun Ammo

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

Forgot the 9x21 which is the .38 Super.

 

[luke32303 10+ year member]

Uhhh, this is some funny shit. I bet I can a get a great SPL rating from my AK full auto.

 

[phoneman 10+ year member]

357mag has over %80 effectiveness on one shot kills among law enforcement which is the highest out of all police used cartridges. I believe the 38 sp and the 9x19 are in the 60 percentile range.

What about the 9x21 and the 9x23? Most people dont even know those exsist and the ones that use them are most deffinately reloaders. One of them I believe is also known as the 9mm Federal and I think it is the 9X21 but not positive.

As far as the .22 goes it is preffered by some for the fact that it will tumble, bounce around in a body and easy to suppress. But also anyone who has any auto loading rimfire gun will know the reliability of consistant functioning is not up to par to a centerfire round.

A guy I went to school with and used to hang out with is serving a life sentence in prison for killing his moms boyfriend. He shot him 9 times with a 22 semi auto rifle and it took all 9 rounds in his chest and back to kill him. For me I will stick with 357's 40's and 45's for self defense in a pistol and my 12 gauge with 00 buck at the house.

 

[phoneman 10+ year member]

the hatcer chart looks a little scewed and biased to me

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

There are as mant different ratings of ammo as there are different types of ammo. None have all the right answers. It pretty much comes down to kinetic energy and how much of that energy is delivered to the target. Large caliber, heavy projectiles have the advantage. Wadcutters and large hollowpoints are more likely to stay in the target rather than passing all the way through and therefore will deliver all of their energy to the target, giving them and even larger advantage.

Do they still make Glasers? Frangible ammo with a really high muzzle energy that shattered on impact and delivered a ton of energy to the target and was a good home defense round because it would not go through the target and hit someone -thing behind it.

 

[phoneman 10+ year member]

yeah you can still get that shit, I was looking at some Muzzel velocities on some of that frangible light weight ammo the other day and I seen couple of loads get in the 2000 fps range for and auto pistol cartridge (cant remember which)

I will stick with my Speer Gold Dots

 

[mrray13 10+ year member]

Uhhh, this is some funny shit. I bet I can a get a great SPL rating from my AK full auto.

hmmmmmmmm...yeah right...whatever...

i still can't find the chart i'm looking for, but there sure is a WHOLE LOT of debate over this...more then i imagened...

hell, the debate over which cartridge/rd is better is worse then which sub is better..

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[phoneman 10+ year member]

hell, the debate over which cartridge/rd is better is worse then which sub is better..:

Nah, this hasent made it to a debate yet. You want to debate guns or cartridges go to a gun forum and then you'll have a debate. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thumbsup.gif.3287b36ca96645a13a43aff531f37f02.gif

 

[mrray13 10+ year member]

Nah, this hasent made it to a debate yet. You want to debate guns or cartridges go to a gun forum and then you'll have a debate. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thumbsup.gif.3287b36ca96645a13a43aff531f37f02.gif

that's what i was referring too....

the OSS cartidge debate is helluva big...more books written about that then car electronicxs has a whole.....

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