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Ammo Information Link.
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:32 am
by Wildscar
A guy at work sent me this page. Has a lot of useful info for ammo. Most of yall might already know most of what here but for newbie's it pretty good.
http://www.mouseguns.com/ammoart.htm
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:16 pm
by Greybeard
Not a bad read. Lots of folks would differ, particularly on the initial comment about .380. I noted the "Opinion by Anonymous".
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:14 pm
by Houston1944
I normally stay away from self defense ammo disscussions but this one I have to comment on. I just don't understand statements like this ---
You are safer because your attacker is more likely to be incapacitated after one or two shots and thus unable to fire back, stab you, or whatever. The decreased likelihood of your attacker dying from hollowpoint bullets saves you the moral and legal complications and expense you will experience from killing a man.
Hollowpoints stop them better than ball ammo but don't kill them???
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:01 pm
by Syntax360
Houston1944 wrote:I normally stay away from self defense ammo disscussions but this one I have to comment on. I just don't understand statements like this ---
You are safer because your attacker is more likely to be incapacitated after one or two shots and thus unable to fire back, stab you, or whatever. The decreased likelihood of your attacker dying from hollowpoint bullets saves you the moral and legal complications and expense you will experience from killing a man.
Hollowpoints stop them better than ball ammo but don't kill them???
I believe the theory behind that statement is this -
If both the FMJ and JHP penetrate deep enough to hit the vitals, the target should be incapacitated if your shot placement was true...
However, the FMJ is more likely to keep on truckin' and overpenetrate than the JHP. So in both cases you are left with an incapacitated BG, but with the FMJ the target is now bleeding from 2 holes instead of 1. Faster blood loss will increase the likelihood that the BG will die of blood loss while waiting on paramedics. Of course every shooting is infinitely complicated and vastly different, and we didn't touch on the expansion characteristics of a JHP (although permanent wound channels are almost indistinguishable between the two), but I believe that was the thought process of the author, more or less.
The article is a very good read for a beginner who wants to get a clue about what to carry and why bullet A might be better than bullet B, but a lot of the information is dated and the "latest and greatest" wonder loads are left out. Still worth the read, though IMHO.