Why do more people not use some type of bonded soft point than M193? Shouldnt a bonded soft point work better?
Either M193, M855, Silver Bear 62 gr. soft point, (came with my son's DPMS, and he didn't want it) or my reloads with 55gr. V-Max or FMJ (which are loaded to M193 levels anyway.) . It's all I have around currently.
I think just about anything that feeds reliably in your AR is good for defense distances.
Why do more people not use some type of bonded soft point than M193? Shouldnt a bonded soft point work better?
There’s actually some truth to this.
I’m an EMT and while the vast of the majority of the shootings that have happened in the districts I’ve worked involve pistols we do occasionally get shootings with rifles and shotguns. The ones that involve AR’s create significantly more trauma than a pistol. Just like larger caliber hunting rifles create more than 5.56/.223’s.
I’ve only had one where I had an idea what it was loaded with (FMJ), but I imagine most are just loaded up with whatever they got from Walmart cheap. It’s not like I can comb through the ballistic evidence while simultaneously treating the patient. PD just sometimes tells us what it was if we ask.
Had one where the guy got shot through the right hip and blew a huge chunk of it off a month ago even after expending some of its energy by traveling through a vehicle. Pistol bullets do travel through vehicles despite what Hollywood shows, but you aren’t getting wounds like that from pistols.
Had another guy in our district several years ago that one of the other shifts got who lost an arm after getting shot with an AR. They had to surgically amputate it.
Still ... it can’t hurt to use something slightly better.
More depends on shot placement, but on a center of mass gsw that hits vital organs that sounds about right.I read a statistic somewhere that was attributed to the FBI. It said 1 in 5 people shot in the torso with a handgun dies, while 1 in 5 people shot in the torso with a rifle lives. Don't know how accurate that is, but certainly even a small caliber, high velocity rifle round like the 5.56 is orders of magnitude more effective than anything you can put in a common defensive handgun.
M193 is designed to fragment and does a pretty decent job even out of a short barrel at home defense ranges. I like it.
However not all 55g fmj are the same and may not fragment as desired.
I’m not a fan of M855 at all. Terminal ballistics suck unless you’re shooting helmets.
I imagine most of the ammo marketed as defense or duty ammo will work well as would hunting ammo. But will it work better than m193? Doubtful