Wondering about hollow points.
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disseminator
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I shoot plated HP in my 9mm almost exclusively. Rainier 147 HP to be specific.
Are they more accurate? Maybe. But there are two reasons I choose the Plated HP over the traditional round nose: They look cool, and they make nice clean holes in paper targets just like a wad-cutter does.
And they are a ballistic match to my standard carry ammo: the 147 HST.
Are they more accurate? Maybe. But there are two reasons I choose the Plated HP over the traditional round nose: They look cool, and they make nice clean holes in paper targets just like a wad-cutter does.
And they are a ballistic match to my standard carry ammo: the 147 HST.
SauerGrapes
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We have some LGS that will buy bulk bullets and break them down into small lots. OR,,,, someone just stuck 50 of them in a bag.
BTW, I use ''target hollow points'' in 9mm. Check out Hornady HAP bullets. They look just like the SD HPs with out the little slits for expansion. Competitive shooters are the target for them.
buck460XVR
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are usually quite a bit cheaper than "good" bullets commonly loaded for defense. When ya burn through (up to) 50 rounds a night, that cost does add up, especially to a cheapskate like me.
Kinda the whole point of plated bullets regardless of design or caliber. Inexpensive alternative to jacketed bullets that offer better terminal performance. Plated bullets have never been touted as the "most accurate" projectile out there. Their accuracy is generally rated in the "good enough for paper" category. Still, some of the better ones are pretty accurate, especially compared to lower cost jacketed. They have a place, but that place has parameters.
They are, altho Speer uses the term "bonded". I use their "Bonded" Deep Curls(just another name for Gold Dots, used to differentiate them as hunting type bullets), and they are extremely accurate and have excellent terminal performance on deer size game. I believe their "Uni-Cor" handgun bullets are also "plated/bonded.
Well, here's the interesting question: Is the damage because the wider meplat behaves like a wadcutter, in which case only round nose or pointed conical bullets should be used, or is it because the darn things start to expand and behave like a widened wadcutter? You'd have to do the damage and recover some bullets to see.
If you want to discern the expansion capability of the bullet, fire some into a jug of water. If that fails to expand them, they won't expand in much of anything. If it does expand them, though, you'll probably have to switch to a medium that better mimics tissue to see if they still expand. 10% ballistic gelatin would be ideal, but expensive and a bit of work. The Clear Ballistics medium and Perma-gel media are at least recyclable to amortize the cost over a number of tests.