Deanimator
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There's NO time to run at least a BOX of JHP through the gun?
Doing some reading, I have to agree with you. Seems non-fragmentation JPH bullets have no problem zooming through walls of modern "ticky-tacky" homes.If you miss fmj bullets go through walls and inanimate objects just like fmj.
JHP bullets only expand in media that are mostly water. Like people
Untested ammo? Oh look, an excuse to go to the rangeLet's say you're moving in a week to an extended stay hotel in another State. You will bring a 1911 for lawful personal protection. You know the 1911 feeds your FMJ ammo fine. You've never tested the other JHP ammo you have through the pistol, and you won't have time to test before you move. The 1911 is a reliable pistol and has never jammed through hundreds of rounds of FMJ.
Would you load it with the FMJ, or with the expensive (but untested) JHP?
JMO, but I think a 45 in a densely populated setting like a hotel is just too much gun.
^ +1.Google "World War II"
^ Respectfully disagree. Even 9mm 124gr of good design may over penetrate residential/hotel walls. That is at least the point of Hornady and other makers "barrier blind performance" claims. Auto glass, drywall, sheet metal, and plywood are all supposed to have nil effect on Critical Defense, Gold Dot, et al. Only Glaser blues or other frangibles would make much diff. Make your shots count!JMO, but I think a 45 in a densely populated setting like a hotel is just too much gun.
How effective is the .45 Auto FMJ for self defense? I've never looked at the numbers/stats etc.
WWB 230 grain FMJ is what I'll use.
Test JPH. You may end up killing someone because of FMJ overpenetration. When I took my CLP class, the instructor, a retired Detroit Police Officer, stressed that we were not ever, ever use FMJ for self defense. He told us of an older gentleman who was being robbed, pulled a gun, shot at his would be robbers, missed them yet ended up killing a girl in a house nearby because his FMJ bullet went right through the wall.