Strykervet
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Has some pretty good articles this one does, and since I can't post the written article on here that I'm referring to, I'll mention a few things to get the discussion going. Hopefully someone will come along with a link to an online source.
Now I REALLY liked the one about the FBI analyst that did ballistics testing. Sounds like my kind of job, so jealous. If you haven't read this, you should, at least that article. That rag is usually too political for me, I wish they'd refrain from running political ads and dedicating half the rag to that and Ruger ads. But it comes free and DOES have some good articles.
If you've read this article about the FBI arms analyst, what did you think? I'd like to get a discussion going. If he is on here, that would be awesome too. There were a few obvious mess ups (like where he was sent to FTU in '78 but tested the bullets that shot Reagan "several years later" right after he was shot?) but we all get old. Short of that tiny messup, the rest of the article was VERY informative to me and seemed worth taking for face value.
Basically, the article gives you a short brief on FBI procedures for testing ammo, what they went though, evolution of testing procedures, etc. It also puts a new light on the 9mm vs. .XX controversy. Check it out and get back to me and tell me what you think about that one article!
I think a more indepth book by this man would be invaluable to the shooting world.
He was the one that tested and recommended implementation of the 10mm, but says they wanted a .40 but it didn't exist and they didn't know there was a secret deal between Winchester and Smith. He also backed up my assumption that the 10mm was not taken out of service due to women not being able to handle recoil... Which is absurd when you consider they were firing .40 loads in a pistol much, much heavier.
So what was it that ruled the 1076 out? He said weight due to excessive frame size for the load, and reliability. Don't read too far into that --he said that "reliability" to the FBI meant every pistol being equally reliable for thousands of agents, that their criteria is different than that of a civilian.
FWIW, my 1006 is quite accurate AND reliable... But the SN that came next or next week may not have been. Mine has also been polished up and they mostly use them out of the box. My G20 and 29 are insanely reliable, and I carry the G29 a lot using a 180gr. GD but loaded a little stiffer than the FBI did (well, in the short barrel I get about 200fps more than they did in the 1076 with their load). The 1006 or G20 with those loads would be too much for SD. What do you guys all think of this? Should they have kept the 10mm had Glock made an SF frame at the time? It isn't TOO much bigger than the G22 truth be told.
But it exlpains how he went to .40 for this exact reason. They could get the load they wanted (at the time) using a smaller frame and a more reliable pistol regarding their citeria. He mentions it being a "wildcat" after the Miami Shootout, funny how a wildcat becomes so common SO fast, huh?
If anyone has a link to this article online, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE post it for those that don't get the rag. Thanks.
Now I REALLY liked the one about the FBI analyst that did ballistics testing. Sounds like my kind of job, so jealous. If you haven't read this, you should, at least that article. That rag is usually too political for me, I wish they'd refrain from running political ads and dedicating half the rag to that and Ruger ads. But it comes free and DOES have some good articles.
If you've read this article about the FBI arms analyst, what did you think? I'd like to get a discussion going. If he is on here, that would be awesome too. There were a few obvious mess ups (like where he was sent to FTU in '78 but tested the bullets that shot Reagan "several years later" right after he was shot?) but we all get old. Short of that tiny messup, the rest of the article was VERY informative to me and seemed worth taking for face value.
Basically, the article gives you a short brief on FBI procedures for testing ammo, what they went though, evolution of testing procedures, etc. It also puts a new light on the 9mm vs. .XX controversy. Check it out and get back to me and tell me what you think about that one article!
I think a more indepth book by this man would be invaluable to the shooting world.
He was the one that tested and recommended implementation of the 10mm, but says they wanted a .40 but it didn't exist and they didn't know there was a secret deal between Winchester and Smith. He also backed up my assumption that the 10mm was not taken out of service due to women not being able to handle recoil... Which is absurd when you consider they were firing .40 loads in a pistol much, much heavier.
So what was it that ruled the 1076 out? He said weight due to excessive frame size for the load, and reliability. Don't read too far into that --he said that "reliability" to the FBI meant every pistol being equally reliable for thousands of agents, that their criteria is different than that of a civilian.
FWIW, my 1006 is quite accurate AND reliable... But the SN that came next or next week may not have been. Mine has also been polished up and they mostly use them out of the box. My G20 and 29 are insanely reliable, and I carry the G29 a lot using a 180gr. GD but loaded a little stiffer than the FBI did (well, in the short barrel I get about 200fps more than they did in the 1076 with their load). The 1006 or G20 with those loads would be too much for SD. What do you guys all think of this? Should they have kept the 10mm had Glock made an SF frame at the time? It isn't TOO much bigger than the G22 truth be told.
But it exlpains how he went to .40 for this exact reason. They could get the load they wanted (at the time) using a smaller frame and a more reliable pistol regarding their citeria. He mentions it being a "wildcat" after the Miami Shootout, funny how a wildcat becomes so common SO fast, huh?
If anyone has a link to this article online, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE post it for those that don't get the rag. Thanks.