Just got a SIG P250 9mm sub compact.
Will any 9mm ammo do or should I get a specific kind?
Just got a SIG P250 9mm sub compact.
Will any 9mm ammo do or should I get a specific kind?
Well, somene has to say it.
The best ammo you can use is 230-grain FMJ hardball. Just like JMB (PBOH) intended for us to use.
Unfortunately that will not fit your handgun.
So you are stuck with what everybody else has said - go buy a box or two of every brand and every flavor they offer and see what yours likes best. Of course that will mean several trips to the range - poor baby.
Remember you are only testing to see if your handgun has any disagreement with a particular brand/ configuration. And that includes testing your magazines - you will be getting extra magazines, won't you?
This exercise may count towards the function testing mentioned in the other thread, but that will mean a reduced number of trips to the range. This exercise may also be used to sight-in and verify POA/POI issues, but the same caveat applies. If I were you I'd take that into consideration.
I hope that this impresses on you the seriousness of handgun ownership.
stay safe.
Just got a SIG P250 9mm sub compact.
Will any 9mm ammo do or should I get a specific kind?
Just got a SIG P250 9mm sub compact.
Will any 9mm ammo do or should I get a specific kind?
Just got a SIG P250 9mm sub compact.
Will any 9mm ammo do or should I get a specific kind?
.... I went into to my local shop/range, asked the guy behind the counter what the best ammo was for home defense and he handed me a box of hollow points. ....
Since you went ahead, and limited yourself to 9mm.. you have 3 realistic options:
1) Throw the pistol at them, instead of pulling the trigger.
2) Gold Dots for HP's
3) FMJ in the heaviest weight you can find- at least that way,you will have a chance of penetrating something, at least..
I think that I have, at various times, been on both ends of the 9. As user and as used on. It failed miserably on both occasions.
I think that 2-3 yrs of seeing -on avg.- 4-6 gunshot victims per night in the E/R -Trauma Center I once worked in, (with the majority of those GSVs having been hit with 9s) that the round -no matter what brand/make/load used, was a dismal failure in every sense of the word.
I think that all but 3 Law Enforcement Dept.s abandoning the 9mm over the last several yrs (for the very same reasons I mention above), the Marines trying whenever/wherever possible to drag their 1911s out of the arms lockers for their troops, nearly all of the U.S. SOCOM community going back to the .45, after experiencing their own dismal failures with the 9mm-even going so far as to purchase, out-of-pocket- their own .45s so that they arent stuck with the M9, and the fact that the DoD's minimum specs for the next U.S. service pistol is to be a .45 is ample reason to have my conclusions on the matter.
No matter how much that may knot the panties of, and wreck the gun-fighter fantasies of, 9mm fanboys.
You are saying you have been shot with a 9mm?
Yup. 2x. once clean through my left side, and another time into my left elbow. Didnt stop me in the least. The elbow hit I didnt even realize had happened until an EMT pointed out I was bleeding there.
On the flip side of the equation, when you've got some 70 lbs (maybe ) half-starved Somali running at you from 10 feet, and you empty an M9 into his torso, center-mass, and he keeps right on charging? Kinda/sorta all the proof I need that the 9mm is utterly worthless. How did I end up stopping him, you ask? I beat him to death with the empty pistol.
End story.