Newly manufactured Glaser Safety Slugs available end of July.

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I've been in contact with Corbon, a new batch of Glaser Safer Slugs should be available at the end of of this month. Not looking to start a debate, just an FYI if anybody had been looking for them. Cheers. ;)
 
I know a now-retired police officer who had to shoot a bad guy he was trying to arrest on a robbery warrant, years ago. He was using the Glazers in his .38 Spec. The "bullet" hit the guy just to the right and a couple inches below his nipple. He told me the bad guy dropped his handgun and fell immediately. He died before the EMTs could get there.

That's the only case I know of their use in a self defense situation.

I have no idea how the "new" ones will perform.

L.W.
 
Leanwolf said:
I know a now-retired police officer who had to shoot a bad guy he was trying to arrest on a robbery warrant, years ago. He was using the Glazers in his .38 Spec. The "bullet" hit the guy just to the right and a couple inches below his nipple. He told me the bad guy dropped his handgun and fell immediately. He died before the EMTs could get there.

That's the only case I know of their use in a self defense situation.

I have no idea how the "new" ones will perform.

L.W.
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I've tested their modern loads both in Blue and Silver, they work just the same as they used to.
 
Only shooting with Glasers I ever heard of was pretty much the same, told to me by a TPD Asst Chief, who said it was a 38Spl round, and cause of death was first listed as "shotgun, close to point blank range". Anecdotal only, no hard evidence on that one. I carried them a LONG time ago...too expensive for anything but a revolver.
 
A few years ago I backordered several packs of the 357 Magnum silver. Months and months went by and I forgot all about them, when one day I returned home and had a package waiting for me. I opened it up and there were my safety slugs. I looked at the order date on the invoice, and it was placed 16 months prior. That's a long time between runs of production!
 
Given the price and spotty real-world performance (albeit somewhat limited examples) they are a niche item I'd never use or recommend.

Some old discussion from when they were somewhat popular:
https://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=336409

Back then, gun store counter commandos always seemed to recommend them to newbies, at $18 for six, I guess the sales commissions were pretty good.
 
I had a few Glasers once but just shot them up on nothing in particular. I also used to make my own I believe the same way they were originally made. I would melt the lead out of a jacketed hollow point and fill them with shot and epoxy over the nose. I loaded them really hot which was easy to do because they were so light weight. A 5 gallon bucket of water just explodes when shot with them.
 
Good Ol' Boy said:
What's the difference between these and the CCI shot shells that are listed for varmint control?

And why do they call the CB's "slugs"?
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The Glaser has a polymer ball that constitues a significant amount of its weight with the shot loaded behind it in the enclosed jacket, and it opens up and releases it's shot once it makes contact with something, whereas the cci shot shells leave the barrel already opened and spreading the shot like a shotgun shell.
 
While I don't like their lack of penetration...they are worlds better than a shot shell. As stated above, it is shot encased in a jacket so it flies through the air like any conventional bullet. On impact, it opens up and fragments.

I can see how they work well in a perfect frontal chest shot scenario, but put a barrier in the way like the perp's wrist or forearm, or a side angle and they won't do so well.
 
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