Are hollow points worth the extra cost in large numbers?

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If the zombies/hippies/aliens/chinese/mexicans come, you really shouldn't be using more than about 50 rounds of pistol ammo in your quest to get a rifle or shotgun into your hands ASAP.

50 rounds of handgun ammo is a LOT of social shooting. Most self defense social encounters involve less than 10 rounds between both sides of the attack.

If you get past a second magazine in a shooting situation, you're probably deep into the muck and involved in a localized breakdown of social services (riot, hurricane, etc) or a full blown SHTF/TEOTWAWKI/WTFBBQLOL situation. Having a long gun in that situation is not only acceptable... it's just plain out survival wisdom.

For me... with hollowpoint retail ammo as expensive as it is, I only carry the first magazine filled with premium hollowpoints. Any second magazine gets FMJ.

Also, anything under 9mm/38special in power should just be FMJ anyways. Not enough speed and mass to be an effectively penetrating hollowpoint expander anyways. .380, 9x18, .32, .25, .22... all those.
 
There's more to it than just JHP or FMJ. For revolvers, a nice lead DEWC or HBWC will hit hard and cause more damage than a FMJ, and JHPs expansion is iffy anyways.
 
hippie zombies, zombie hippies,
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Regular zombies are bad enough but you want to prepared for the dreaded Hippie zombies, and zombie hippies?...well, leave the hollowpoints at home and go FMJ all the way. Hippie zombies are hard to penetrate and most hollowpoints will open up on the skin and fail to penetrate.

The hippie zombies of '94 almost won, even hydrashoks left many dead...:(

It was the hardcast lead solids that saved our bacon then. Get something solid for their tough @ss skins and not only that but they know how to use cover now...and for gods sake boy, get a battle rifle!:D
 
There are some vicious rumors that near the end of October, a mysterious zombie subforum magically appears on TFL--should those rumors be true, I suppose zombie threads are in season briefly.

Other than that we don't do zombie threads on TFL.
 
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