AndyC wrote:Like I said earlier - friends don't let friends carry pre-fragmented rubbish.
I learned that lesson when I saw the results of a police shooting of a felon in a vehicle with Glaser ammo.
The officer who the BG was trying to run down got off 5 shots using the most definitely unauthorized ammunition. Two hit the windshield, one hit the passenger door just below the window, one hit the passenger window, and one hit the trunk.
The hits on the door and trunk made impressive holes in the outer sheet metal - and did not penetrate the inner sheet metal at all.
The two rounds that hit the windshield made marks but didn't penetrate the polymer inner layer.
The round that hit the passenger window was the only one that made it into the passenger compartment. Had the officer been using standard duty ammo, this would have been a fight stopper for sure. However, the Glaser slug broke up on the glass and showered the BG with pepper flake size shot. He kept driving.
When he was stopped and arrested, he looked like he had the measles on one side of his face, but was otherwise none the worse for wear.
The fact is that there's no way to get the deep penetration and large wound channel of a big, heavy slug when you start out with a light projectile that's designed to shed a lot of its mass as soon as it hits something. Expanding hollowpoints go deep enough to reach vital organs relatively reliably and, when they do expand, create more significant wound channels.
Whenever I'm asked about the latest prefrag miracle bullet, I tell folks I'll stick with my proven hollowpoints, thank you very much.
AndyC has convinced me to switch to carry my .22LR pistol. 