Stopping power.
Hehehe. Like Red Foxx in "Sanford and Son" with his Louisville Slugger. Now that's stopping power!
Stopping power.
Glazer saftey rounds?
Yah.I always felt that it is better to have the bad guy leaking from 2 holes rather than just 1.
Both of those 240gr bullets would have likely hit the people standing behind the target.Funny you brought those numbers up. Here is a test of a .44 Magnum 180 grain XTP, a bullet known to penetrate pretty well, at 1571 fps. It penetrates to 12.6";-( You can clearly see that the damage is done in the first six inches of the block. My concern with this is what if the guy has an arm out, and the bullet hits his arm, fail to penetrate deeply enough, and he keeps going?
It's very hard to push a light bullet fast enough to get 18" or so of penetration, and I think that should be the target. To get an exit is said to require 6" of gello penetration, and velocity must still be pretty high, since the offside skin is elastic, and, really not an easy barrier to penetrate.
http://www.brassfetcher.com/180grHorn44mag.html
However, move the bullet weight up to 240 grains, and you get a bigger, longer wound channel, with plenty of penetration:
http://www.brassfetcher.com/Speer240grainJHP.html
The above was going about 1354 fps, IIRC.
This slower Federal 240 grain bullet still does quite a bit of damage:
http://www.brassfetcher.com/Federal 240 grain Hydra-Shok.html
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While I have HST 147 grain HP's in my 9mm, I wonder if 125 grain flat points, moving as fast as possible wouldn't be a better solution?
So, I keep the backup magazine loaded with 125 grain flat point Federal, at about 950 fps. I'd like to find a bit faster load, but, it would seem that
for the lesser calibers, that bullet design might give a deeper, longer, wider,
wound channel, and, possibly two holes.
I'm 205, ok, 210 after a few beers.