17poundr
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Hello, could somebody help me in giving a link to a sight where they explain all of the letter combos for different ammo? Or if you know it yourself, please let us know, because I'm a little bewildered and I have a multitude of questions, but for starters can you give me a kind of 'quick guide for the dumb' on the letter combo's for different bullets???
I know the main ones, FMJ is Full Metal Jacket, and JHP is Jacketed Hollow Point...
but when we get into the weird ones like SPS or TMJ, then I'm completely lost!
Like I was reading about the very, very appeticing handgun from Para, called the Para limited edition nite-tac. It's in .45caliber, and holds 14rounds! And it's a metal gun, yep, no mega recoil like some say the otherwize appealing Springfield XD has!
Anyway, it costs only 1100usd, which I think is a good price for a good 1911 with a double stack, and praises from the writers in Combat Handguns magazine...
Anyway, they were shooting different loads of '45', and the apc seems just to mean '45automatic', but I could be wrong... Then there was a 165grain PB, but that one I figured out, it was a Pow'r'Ball!
Then there was one I couldnt figure out, the Speer Lawman 230grain TMJ...??? Never heard of a TMJ... Anyway, I went to an ammo sight, which turned out to be just a glorified web shop for the US market, and I saw all these weird letter combo's... Now I know there is the 'ball ammo, or JMJ, and HP or JHP for the hollow points, and names like PB, for fancy expanding bullets...
And this was just handgun ammunition... The there are the various rifle bullets, and shotgun ammo, which I must admit I know nothing of. Wouldnt mind learning the starters though...
So, any help is most welcome, if you have a link for a page with list of all the 'nicknames' of the various ammo styles, and explains the difference between them, I would love to know!
And, If I ever get to the UK long enough to get into a gun club, I'll see if I can get my hand's on a EAA, or is it EEA, 10mm semi auto! (When I browsed for 10mm ammo, I found some really deadly looking ammo called Frangibles, apparently they just burst into shards of schrapnel upon impact, is this legal)?
If I reach the US I think I would perhaps first get a Beretta storm, just because it is so cheap and a Beretta cannot be puny, also it seems to have a stricker on it, which I like, and I like it's looks... But ofcourse I would want to try it out first...
Any word on the best 9mm ammo? I would love to try the Cor-Bon PB, but then again, I would love to try everything I read in gun mags and on the net! Lot's of paper targets have been shot to ribbons in my dreams...
Then I would get that cheap 9mm or .40cal carbine from Kel-Tec, it was deemed as a very good home defence weapon... Or the Taurus 'Judge', but that ofcourse necessitates being very close to a snake, or human agressor, and that is something to avoid if being attacked! I think I would rather run from a rattler than stand and try to hit it if it was a normal gun!
But, worst scenario's are exactly that, one in a million... So, I would like a good practical gun, and I thinks that STI would be my choise... Or if I got very rich, an Infinity arms .40cal, with a ceramic barrel and all that... (By the way, do Ceramic barrels wear at all, and if so, how fast compared to a good steel barrel)?
But enough of my prattling... And if you can help on those ammo names, I would be most thankful!
Yours truly,
MR Poundr.
I know the main ones, FMJ is Full Metal Jacket, and JHP is Jacketed Hollow Point...
but when we get into the weird ones like SPS or TMJ, then I'm completely lost!
Like I was reading about the very, very appeticing handgun from Para, called the Para limited edition nite-tac. It's in .45caliber, and holds 14rounds! And it's a metal gun, yep, no mega recoil like some say the otherwize appealing Springfield XD has!
Anyway, it costs only 1100usd, which I think is a good price for a good 1911 with a double stack, and praises from the writers in Combat Handguns magazine...
Anyway, they were shooting different loads of '45', and the apc seems just to mean '45automatic', but I could be wrong... Then there was a 165grain PB, but that one I figured out, it was a Pow'r'Ball!
Then there was one I couldnt figure out, the Speer Lawman 230grain TMJ...??? Never heard of a TMJ... Anyway, I went to an ammo sight, which turned out to be just a glorified web shop for the US market, and I saw all these weird letter combo's... Now I know there is the 'ball ammo, or JMJ, and HP or JHP for the hollow points, and names like PB, for fancy expanding bullets...
And this was just handgun ammunition... The there are the various rifle bullets, and shotgun ammo, which I must admit I know nothing of. Wouldnt mind learning the starters though...
So, any help is most welcome, if you have a link for a page with list of all the 'nicknames' of the various ammo styles, and explains the difference between them, I would love to know!
And, If I ever get to the UK long enough to get into a gun club, I'll see if I can get my hand's on a EAA, or is it EEA, 10mm semi auto! (When I browsed for 10mm ammo, I found some really deadly looking ammo called Frangibles, apparently they just burst into shards of schrapnel upon impact, is this legal)?
If I reach the US I think I would perhaps first get a Beretta storm, just because it is so cheap and a Beretta cannot be puny, also it seems to have a stricker on it, which I like, and I like it's looks... But ofcourse I would want to try it out first...
Any word on the best 9mm ammo? I would love to try the Cor-Bon PB, but then again, I would love to try everything I read in gun mags and on the net! Lot's of paper targets have been shot to ribbons in my dreams...
Then I would get that cheap 9mm or .40cal carbine from Kel-Tec, it was deemed as a very good home defence weapon... Or the Taurus 'Judge', but that ofcourse necessitates being very close to a snake, or human agressor, and that is something to avoid if being attacked! I think I would rather run from a rattler than stand and try to hit it if it was a normal gun!
But, worst scenario's are exactly that, one in a million... So, I would like a good practical gun, and I thinks that STI would be my choise... Or if I got very rich, an Infinity arms .40cal, with a ceramic barrel and all that... (By the way, do Ceramic barrels wear at all, and if so, how fast compared to a good steel barrel)?
But enough of my prattling... And if you can help on those ammo names, I would be most thankful!
Yours truly,
MR Poundr.