D!rty H@rry
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I get 'em from Midway. There's also a local gunshop that usually has 'em.
http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct...ber=1601122672
ahh that explains it. those are SJHP, not JHP's.
I get 'em from Midway. There's also a local gunshop that usually has 'em.
http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct...ber=1601122672
Expansion and penetration aren't everything. They are just 2 of the factors in the overall terminal ballistics picture. You can shove an aluminum knitting needle clean through a body. Very little mass and very little velocity, so very little kinetic energy developed. Also very little frontal area, so very little of that little bit of energy gets dumped in the body. A .380 might penetrate as deep as a 9mm or .38, but can't dump as much energy into the target because it just never gets developed. Oh by the way, a .45 ACP in 185 gr. certainly is heavy enough to get the job done.
The .380 was designed to be a semi-automatic equivalent to the original black powder .38, using smokeless powder
in much the same way that .45 ACP was equivalent to the black powder .45 LC.
Of course, by this time, the .38 had also been converted over to smokeless powder, but the .380 still matched the original specification for the round.
The 9mm and .38 Special are fairly close in performance,
although .38's can be loaded hotter, both due to the round's characteristics and the general strength of revolvers;
semi-automatic rounds are limited by the average recoil-absorbing capacity of firearms chambered for them, while an uncompensated action such as a revolver is much more forgiving.
Once the round nose or semi wadcutter has flipped base forward it tends to remain that way acting more like a true wad cutter. However it loses velocity in the "flip" so relative to its starting velocity it is less effective than a wad cutter that didn't flip.
outerlimit said:There is simply no way that a 95gr. jhp .380acp can match the performance of a 158gr. jhp .38spl.
huntsman said:Hmmm I believe the comparison was between 90gr .380 and 110gr .38spl
A .38 special lead wadcutter round has great stopping power compared to a 9mm,
If you have to shoot a robber or rapist coming at you with a knife, you want to stop them, which means you don't want to be humane.
Bullet construction has a lot to do with defensive combat performance.
.32 ACP and .30 Carbine FMJ are one thing, .32 ACP hollowpoint and .30 Carbine softnose hollowpoint are another.