Ed Bulldog
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QUESTION:
1) what type of ammo do you utilize with your EDC SW EZ 380-?
Thank you
1) what type of ammo do you utilize with your EDC SW EZ 380-?
Thank you
My wife's running Remington "Ultimate Defense" 102 GR. BJHPs in hers. No failures of any kind yet, and it shoots to point of aim.QUESTION:
1) what type of ammo do you utilize with your EDC SW EZ 380-?
Thank you
There are the adherents of the "through-and-through" philosophy of bullet performance and they even advocate FMJ in 9mm, .40 S&W, and 45 ACP. But if you're not one of those people - it really doesn't make sense to use FMJ in 380.
When the top-performing 380 JHP bullets work, they're penetrating between 12 and 14 inches. When they don't work - they're not expanding so they're acting pretty much like a JHP, so at the very least they're just as good as FMJ but in many situations will perform better than JHPs. And as has been shown, the very top performing bullets, loadings of the Hornady XTP average around 13.5" of penetration through 4 layers of denim.
Unless you believe that a complete pass-through is the most effective scenario for stopping an assailant, it doesn't make sense any longer to use FMJ in 380 AUTO.
Everyone should go out and try their preferred ammo against a variety of media and not just rely on people on social media shooting gel blocks and cloth covered gel blocks. I document my "tests" but mostly for myself.