Hamsterdam
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Hello, its me, the old fart newbie.
Over the last 30+ yrs, ive owned a S&W .357 Mag. Nickel LB, a S&W .38 Special, Ruger Red Label 12 ga. O/U, Winchester Model 70 30.06, a .410 "snake charmer", an an old lever action 22 LR.
Most of these, i can no longer fire, due to disability. i have 5 collapsed disks in upper and mid back, plus a benign, yet inoperable, lemon sized spinal tumor in the Lumbar area. This prevents shooting any hi-power shoulder fired weapon, aside from perhaps with a sandbag setup, and still the shock to the frame would accumulate.
ANYWAY....after the huge digression.......
i purchased a PT-111 Pro Millenium 9mm 2 weeks ago, for my carry, especially on my powerchair. As you see above, none of my handguns were Semis...all Revolvers. i have used a 9mm and other Semi at ranges, or just plinking targets in the pasture, so i am not unfamiliar with them, their use or care. However, i have purchased 3 varieties of SD loads, along with a bunch of FMJ peanuts for the Range, and ran into something that shocked me...pardon the pun.
i have 40 rds Barnes Tac XD, 50rds Georgia Arms Gold Dot, and 40 rds of Federal Hydra-Shok. In the past we even practiced with the Federals(when that was an affordable thing), and i had thought highly of it as an SD round, but i read an article that gave me doubt to use it for carry.
From the article on TRuthaboutgunsDOTcom:
"In this test, I fired three bullets into a denim-covered gel block, and witnessed one partial success and two complete failures to expand (which resulted in those two bullets over-penetrating all 32 inches of gel I’d set up.) I don’t know how far they would have gone; I had two 16″ blocks set up, and they overpenetrated both of them and were lost. I then used the remaining room in the block to fire two bullets into bare gel. Those two rounds did expand, but one under-penetrated by reaching only 11″; the other performed great, expanded well and penetrated to the required minimum 12″ distance."
Now, i don't know how this guy prepares for testing, and some of his language sounded wonky, but these results sure give me pause about having a defense mag filled with Shoks. Does anyone use this round? Has anyone else heard of or experienced issues with them? i am thinking about just putting them in with my range rounds next trip, if they perform like this in a combat scenario....am i overracting?
i do know i am on the Georgia Arms Bandwagon....it may become my main defense round.
Over the last 30+ yrs, ive owned a S&W .357 Mag. Nickel LB, a S&W .38 Special, Ruger Red Label 12 ga. O/U, Winchester Model 70 30.06, a .410 "snake charmer", an an old lever action 22 LR.
Most of these, i can no longer fire, due to disability. i have 5 collapsed disks in upper and mid back, plus a benign, yet inoperable, lemon sized spinal tumor in the Lumbar area. This prevents shooting any hi-power shoulder fired weapon, aside from perhaps with a sandbag setup, and still the shock to the frame would accumulate.
ANYWAY....after the huge digression.......
i purchased a PT-111 Pro Millenium 9mm 2 weeks ago, for my carry, especially on my powerchair. As you see above, none of my handguns were Semis...all Revolvers. i have used a 9mm and other Semi at ranges, or just plinking targets in the pasture, so i am not unfamiliar with them, their use or care. However, i have purchased 3 varieties of SD loads, along with a bunch of FMJ peanuts for the Range, and ran into something that shocked me...pardon the pun.
i have 40 rds Barnes Tac XD, 50rds Georgia Arms Gold Dot, and 40 rds of Federal Hydra-Shok. In the past we even practiced with the Federals(when that was an affordable thing), and i had thought highly of it as an SD round, but i read an article that gave me doubt to use it for carry.
From the article on TRuthaboutgunsDOTcom:
"In this test, I fired three bullets into a denim-covered gel block, and witnessed one partial success and two complete failures to expand (which resulted in those two bullets over-penetrating all 32 inches of gel I’d set up.) I don’t know how far they would have gone; I had two 16″ blocks set up, and they overpenetrated both of them and were lost. I then used the remaining room in the block to fire two bullets into bare gel. Those two rounds did expand, but one under-penetrated by reaching only 11″; the other performed great, expanded well and penetrated to the required minimum 12″ distance."
Now, i don't know how this guy prepares for testing, and some of his language sounded wonky, but these results sure give me pause about having a defense mag filled with Shoks. Does anyone use this round? Has anyone else heard of or experienced issues with them? i am thinking about just putting them in with my range rounds next trip, if they perform like this in a combat scenario....am i overracting?
i do know i am on the Georgia Arms Bandwagon....it may become my main defense round.
