Both magazines do that or just one?Let me start by saying I love this little gun! BUT-it is having teething pains with the crazy loaded round stovepipe issue where a loaded round (usually last) stands straight up in the ejection port. I think it's magazine related and it'll get figured out and fixed but at this time I can't recommend the 380EZ for defense purposes. Being a beta tester is a crap shoot and this gun has so much going for it that I made the leap and am paying the price. Still love it though and it'll be well proven by the time I need its features.
While I haven't tried the 380, I have used 9mm and 38/357 on hogs as well as to put down some livestock. The results weren't much different than conventional ammunition including FMJ, Ive put it into the $2 per round gimmick category. It makes for neato slow-motion jello footage, but applies none of that to actual living critters.Look at this..great carry ammo(altho the EZ is pretty big)...
Lehigh/Underwood/Blackhills
Tested better than some 9mm JHP..
Did you call S&W?To All, we have a Shield EZ also and it does the exact same thing with the last round and with both magazines. Also from everyone that I have talked to with this gun they are all experiencing the same thing. Now also this is an early model that is listed in the recall list of numbers for the safety so I don't know if this has been rectified on the latest models.
Ours doesn't do it every time but almost. Also many of the early video reviews I've seen so this happening. I have yet to hear of a remedy that works.
When people refer to ballistic gel as Jello and then expect to have their opinions taken seriously, I'm left scratching my head
About $1.20 per round and tested thru things like sheet metal and numerous layers of cloth that often ‘clogs’ JHP. But if that hog is wearing some Levi’s or driving a car, might have some problems.......While I haven't tried the 380, I have used 9mm and 38/357 on hogs as well as to put down some livestock. The results weren't much different than conventional ammunition including FMJ, Ive put it into the $2 per round gimmick category. It makes for neato slow-motion jello footage, but applies none of that to actual living critters.
I think believing how a bullet performs in jello....err....umm....gelatin actually equates to how it behaves in living flesh, muscle, tissue, bone, etc, is incredibly naive. I also think ammunition manufacturers have grasped hold of the emotion people invest into watching such 'tests' and sucker people out of their hard earned money. More power to them, and more power to those that truly believe.I do but I think dismissing results in it casually is short sighted. Similarly to yourself, I'm just expressing an opinion.
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I think believing how a bullet performs in jello....err....umm....gelatin actually equates to how it behaves in living flesh, muscle, tissue, bone, etc, is incredibly naive. I also think ammunition manufacturers have grasped hold of the emotion people invest into watching such 'tests' and sucker people out of their hard earned money. More power to them, and more power to those that truly believe.
But as I've said many many times before, after half a century of hunting, culling, and duty, I've yet to see a common handgun service caliber projectile behave in 'ballistic gel' (natural or synthetic) the same or even similar to how it behaves in actual living tissue. It simply doesn't.
If you really want to see how closely the various calibers and bullet styles perform, get out and do some handgun hunting. Most folks are quite shocked the first time they see how similar they all are.
Now can we awkward 'man-hug'?
You can come over for a nice dish of jello.