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by RPB
Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:18 pm
Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
Topic: Personal Defense Ammo
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Re: Personal Defense Ammo

Preferred: especially this time of year (jackets etc to go through)
Hornady Critical Defense...
9 mm 115 grain
.45 ACP 185 grain

Summer I might carry a spare mag with
#23614 Gold Dots (low flash low recoil 115 gr 9mm), but I don't carry the other Gold Dots

but primarily I prefer the critical Defense above

I stick with 115 grain, I'm used to it for practice, I want as few distractions as possible if I need fast followup shots.

Hence, same weight, low flash + low recoil + similar velocities etc. in my 9mms

I do the expensive "practice with what you carry" more than anything else though.

I bought _Federal self defense low recoil _ and found it to not be all that low recoil compared to the #23614 Gold Dots and Hornady Critical Defense. .... and I verified my feeling with some charts I found online a couple years ago .... so, I stick to those 2.

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