daniel craig
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The outside edges? Not really. They’re just scraped up because taking the wadding out was difficult.Damn, are those edges as sharp as they look!?!?!?
I’d love to get my hands on some ballistic gel to see how it expands.It looks like that .380 ammo Federal is making that expands very little, but penetrates well.
I believe that is the Geneva convention. And the USA didn’t sign if memory serves me correctly.Hollow points still against int'l military conventions.
I remember when people talked about DumDums as being soft lead nosed rounds with an X filed into them to enhance expansion.
Also location of ammo factory I think.The name comes from Dum Dum India where a British Army officer came up with the concept.
1899 Hague Convention covered land warfare including ammunition restrictions.... and the US didn’t sign on to this part.I believe that is the Geneva convention. And the USA didn’t sign if memory serves me correctly.
Why the switch?The shape of the unfired bullet makes sense, as the expanded one has the “six-petal flower” look that matches the folds in the nose.
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It’s pretty cool how their engineers figured out how to keep the nose from plugging up with stuff and instead use the polymer plug to squish and start the expansion.
I went to a Hornady ammo demo a year or so after they started marketing these rounds. All of them from .380 to .45 ACP did a great job consistently performing through cloth, leather jacket material etc. I carried these fir a long time, only recently swapping to Federal micro HST in my carry 9mms.
Stay safe.
I’d love to get my hands on some ballistic gel to see how it expands.
It was three years in my guns on the Hornady loads, so it was time to swap out. I saw the HST micro got great performance reviews out of micro pistols like my Micro 9 and LC 9 so I swapped those guns out to the HST Micro.Why the switch?
The U.S. never signed; however................1899 Hague Convention covered land warfare including ammunition restrictions.... and the US didn’t sign on to this part.
1907 Hague was primarily naval in scope.
Geneva was an addendum in 1925 regarding poison gas... if I recall correctly.
Stay safe.
I’d love to get my hands on some ballistic gel to see how it expands.
I carry critical DUTY
FWIW
And the winner is??? Drum Roll please!!!
Both the Duty and Defense loads are very good, Hornady did a great job developing these bullet-load combos. You picked a fantastic round to protect you and yours with.... hopefully we all will never be placed in the position to have to use them against a violent assault .
Stay safe.