This string was just too juicy for me to resist; I just had to put my .02 cents in .
Firstly 32s&W is a rimmed revolver cartridge and the 32acp which your father in law has requires a rimless cartridge. I would first
tell your father-in -law that you care about him enough to set him straight and then show hum the difference between a rimmed revolver cartridge and a rimless pistol cartridge.As
to cheap military surplus ammo, I wont buy or use that sh~t because it has broken one gun on me already. Cheap mil surplus 7.62x54R
broke the extracter on my type 56 nigant bolt
action rifle and it cost me $30.oo for a new extractor. You never save anything by buying mil surplus crap. It is usually corrosive &
has steel jacketed bullets instead of copper jacketed bullets so that it wears out the barrel of your gun three times faster than copper jacketed and when it is not corrosive it uses a cheap and extreemely dirty burning powder that makes cleaning up your gun three times harder. I would rather spend one or two bucks a box more for good ammo that I can depend on not to jam or break my gun and save
an hour per gun on the clean up time. When you have 10 dirty guns, saving an hour per gun (only spending 20 or 30 min per gun on clean up)adds up to a days work. as to the hollow point vs the 115 gr fmj on the 9 mm
ammo, I use 115gr fmj and not hollow points
because I dont intend to have to ever shoot
anyone and if I ever do, I prefer head & neck shots. Hollow points are generally $5.oo
to 10.oo a box more than 115 fmj and usually have a higher powder (power) level.Hollow points,9mm, are rated for 92% first shot kill
while 115gr fmj are rated from 80 to 86% first shot kill. My experience in 15 years of ccw carry has been never to fire my gun, Thank God.I sincerely hope I never have to. I believe in the best and most accurate pistol
my money can buy me, so I carry a Sig Sauer P226 in 9 mm It is capable of 1.4 inch groups at 25 yards and I shoot it accuratly, I can hit a 8in x 12in target at 100 yards.I can consistantly shoot 3.5 inch freehand standing
groups at 25 yards.This is good enough for me and will get the job done ,I feel. The Taurus pt111 that your father in law bought
is if my memory got it right ,a double action only, one of the worst types of actions ever devised ,in my opionion. I think this because you have to deal with a long hard 12 or 16 pound trigger pull every time you pull the trigger.This long & hard trigger pull does
you the diservice of desturbing your sight allignment and pulling the barrell up off
bullseye for each and every shot. Its about ok for down & dirty shooting where any accuracy is strictly an accidental secondary
consideration. Me, I like to know for sure just exactly where EACH AND EVERY SHOT IS GOING.My sig, being single & double acting,
has the 12 pound long pull for the quick & fast first shot only and automatically changing to single action mode short & light 3 pound trigger pull for the remaining 15 shots.Choosing a firearm is a personal choice
which in the past I have choosen poorly due to lack of information. A cheap gun disturbs
me every time I miss the bullseye and I forget how little the gun cost me, feeling instead that I wasted my money on a piece of sh~t. On the other hand, every time my sig shoots the middle of the ten ring out, I get a warm fuzzy feeling and think it was the best
$675.oo I ever spent. and if the sig does not shoot the middle of the 10 ring out, it is always my fault and never the guns fault.
Sometimes I just have really bad days and cant shoot anything good. So there is my advise from my experience. Excellent Quality Pays for itself every time you use it.Cheap bits your butt every time you have to deal with it.This is true of live in general & not only guns.