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Some Mysteries Are Too Deep..........
JimP:
--- Quote from: David Hineline on September 12, 2014, 02:36:38 AM ---And here I was thinking it was to stop me from filling the cavity with some nitro ....
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The shock of firing could prove .... exciting.
--- Quote from: David Hineline on September 12, 2014, 02:36:38 AM ---New indoor range opened in Sioux City Iowa, I got a first day open tour, the backstop is angled steel covered with ground up tire many inches thick.About half way down the 75 foot range on the floor were the bullets from Hornady Critical Defense 380 ammunition, it could not penetrate ground up tire and bounced back, there was no expansion just the tip of the bullet pinches shut around the plastic insert. This is what I found about Hornady XTP bullets years ago, no expansion just a pinched shut hollowpoint.
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I'll keep that in mind if I'm ever attacked by an assailant armored in several inches of vulcanized rubber crumbs .....
Shot into water, bowling pins, moist earth, or wet newsprint/phonebooks, or even wet snow .... most any hollow point I've ever used has expanded and imparted better energy on target than any fmj .....
RedDot:
--- Quote from: JimP on September 12, 2014, 10:11:20 PM ---I'll keep that in mind if I'm ever attacked by an assailant armored in several inches of vulcanized rubber crumbs .....
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Obviously you've never seen how ugly it can get when the Michelin Man gets his drink on. :o
On another note, a buddy of mine just came home with some of the G2 R.I.P. ammo in 9mm. At $47.50 for a box of 20 it had damn well better be "the last round you'll ever need" as a warning shot would just be financially irresponsible.
After viewing the ballistic test video on their website, I had a question. It would appear after penetration, separation, and immediately following the collapse of the hydrostatic shock-wave, that a small secondary charge goes off in the gel. Is this an explosive round or am I just seeing the effect of other factors inside the gel block?
RLMoeller:
Not explosive. Just fragmentation with different size fragments.
RedDot:
--- Quote from: RLMoeller on September 13, 2014, 08:59:35 AM ---Not explosive. Just fragmentation with different size fragments.
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Did you watch the video? What is the effect I'm seeing?
RLMoeller:
I have seen it before. What you are seeing is the largest fragment continuing to advance after the smaller fragments have stopped.
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