easyg
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Hornady Critical Defense.....
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easyg, my 9mm critical defense rounds arrived for my Taurus 905. I'm heading to the range next week. I post the mushroomed rounds after.
Just found this forum and thread while searching the net to see if failure to fires with the Hornady Critical defense was common or if it was just me. Seems to be a real issue. I have a Ruger LCP 380. Picked up two boxes of 25 @ Bass Pro a while back. I have shot several magazines of Remington UMC without a single problem. Fired very few Remington Golden Sabers as well and had no problems. Two out of four attempts to fire the Hornady Critical defense went boom. The other two just "Click". Perfect strike in the center of the primer on both failures. Both boxes are from the same Lot# and have a nickel primer.
I only attempted to fire the four rounds. With a success rate of 50% (2 out of 4), I have ZERO confidence in this ammo. I have spoken to Hornady and will be shipping the two boxes off today. I wanted a refund of my $$, but they won't do that and neither will Bass Pro. Instead Hornady said they will ship me out the same crap that I don't trust at all + some extra for my troubles. That's great. Maybe they have changed primers and fixed the issue, but I still won't be carrying this stuff or buying any other Hornady products. One lesson learned, always test your ammo! Links to other problems with the CD....
http://www.defensivecarry.com/vbulletin/defensive-carry-guns/88059-ruger-lcp-safe-get-one-yet-5.html
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=5&f=20&t=82191&page=1
I only attempted to fire the four rounds. With a success rate of 50% (2 out of 4), I have ZERO confidence in this ammo. I have spoken to Hornady and will be shipping the two boxes off today. I wanted a refund of my $$, but they won't do that and neither will Bass Pro. Instead Hornady said they will ship me out the same crap that I don't trust at all + some extra for my troubles. That's great. Maybe they have changed primers and fixed the issue, but I still won't be carrying this stuff or buying any other Hornady products. One lesson learned, always test your ammo! Links to other problems with the CD....
http://www.defensivecarry.com/vbulletin/defensive-carry-guns/88059-ruger-lcp-safe-get-one-yet-5.html
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=5&f=20&t=82191&page=1
Critical Defense
The only thing I know is that before this round was developed for 2" snubs ,the speed of a hollow point was very low for most bullet types. In some of the published velocity test in the gun mags. 1000 fps. is nothing to sneeze at from the 110 Plus- P 38sp. load in the Critical Defense. This is enough speed for expansion and penetration from snubs, where this had been a real problem.
The only thing I know is that before this round was developed for 2" snubs ,the speed of a hollow point was very low for most bullet types. In some of the published velocity test in the gun mags. 1000 fps. is nothing to sneeze at from the 110 Plus- P 38sp. load in the Critical Defense. This is enough speed for expansion and penetration from snubs, where this had been a real problem.
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