Two choices of .380 ammo

[GRIZ22]

A bullet ricocheted off of a guy's teeth, straight downward? What were his teeth made of? Maybe he was robocop because that seems highly ridiculous.

I'm pretty sure a bullet turning at a near 90 degree angle, due to thin piece of attached bone, defies physics! The round would have to be so weak that the teeth don't even break. Just try to imagine a bullet doing that...no way.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14272

http://www.customs.gov/hot-new/pressrel/1997/0808-00.htm

Can't find a link detailing the injuries but these detail the event. Just a case of God looking after the good guys. I'm not sure if it was a FMJ or hollowpoint.

I've seen a 9mm split when shot through the door window of a car and know of a guy who kept fighting for some time after being gut shot with an AK. You don't have to believe anything but all of these things have happened.

 

[gmh1013]

Hell I use my little Bersa 380 for a carry gun and bought 300 rounds of remington ball ammo from cabelas a few weeks ago for practice.
I use gold dot 90 grain HP's
and never worry about being out gunned. In the other clip I use the ball ammo...

 

[desire4one]

I have a Bersa .380 for carry and typically have CCI 88gr JHP loaded. They're dead on, but I always have the feed issue in the back of my mind. I've also shot Hornady 90gr FTX Defense, they're almost as accurate and I have less of a impending feeling of jamms. But if we are talking Africa, considered just dropping some dough for a .45 auto or .357 mag?

 

[jackstinson]

A bullet ricocheted off of a guy's teeth, straight downward? What were his teeth made of? Maybe he was robocop because that seems highly ridiculous.

It was the guy in the James Bond movies....Lurch...errrrr...Jaws (Richard Kiel).
I'd be interested in reading the actual report on this incident.

As for the original question? All of my .380 pistols love Remington 88-grain JHP.
For general use at the range? Remington FMJ, Sellier & Bellot FMJ, or whatever else I can find these days.
I currently have surplus steel jacketed S&B and Rem 95 FMJ on hand for general use, Rem 88 JHP for carry.

 

[kokapelli]

A bullet ricocheted off of a guy's teeth, straight downward

Maybe the guy sort of ducked just as the gun was fired and his head was down with face almost parallel to the ground making the bullet path parallel to his teeth so that it just grazed them.

There was a shooting locally not too long ago where a 380 round broke the large bone in a guy's leg, so I doubt a persons teeth would deflect the round to that degree unless it was as I suggested above.