xRapidDavex
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Francis Marion wrote:
This reminds me. I forgot Doug's wasn't opened on Sundays and I forgot to pick up part of my Brother in Law's present for his birthday. I was going to get him some new Gold Dot Spear hollowpoints, but the store was empty. I tried the army/navy store next door, and resigned to buying FMJ from Walmart since the army/navy didn't sell handgun ammunition (dunno if they sell rifle... it is an army/navy store for pete's sake).
For the hell of it I asked the guy at the counter if he had the rounds I wanted and I first opened with
"Do you guys have any defensive rounds?"
He says
"Defensive? You mean Hollow Point?"
and I say "Ya."
He snickers and proceeds to tell me that there's no reason to buy hollow points and that they are a waste of money, and that they will go through walls just as easily as FMJ.
I replied "not when it leaves this (size of nickel-quarter with my fingers) going in, and this (spread the opening of my hands 4 - 6 inches to signify a hole) coming out"
He said "I just went through ballistics training in the army and hollow ponts have a 90% fail rate (meaning only 10% of the rounds I buy will expand correctly).
At this point I was through talking to him because he was the 'know it all army guy' and I was the 'uninformed civillian who couldn't possibly know anything about firearms.'
I decided to get 100 rounds of 'target ammo', and that made him snicker AGAIN because
"I can't believe I come back from a war and they are calling this 'target ammo'. This will do what you need, its the same ammo we use in the military."
Francis Marion wrote:
There's a lot more to my bullet decision making than foot-punds. I want my energy absorbed by the target and not the backstop. Sure, give me lots of force but, give me something that turns into .90 when it comes in contact with my target.
This reminds me. I forgot Doug's wasn't opened on Sundays and I forgot to pick up part of my Brother in Law's present for his birthday. I was going to get him some new Gold Dot Spear hollowpoints, but the store was empty. I tried the army/navy store next door, and resigned to buying FMJ from Walmart since the army/navy didn't sell handgun ammunition (dunno if they sell rifle... it is an army/navy store for pete's sake).
For the hell of it I asked the guy at the counter if he had the rounds I wanted and I first opened with
"Do you guys have any defensive rounds?"
He says
"Defensive? You mean Hollow Point?"
and I say "Ya."
He snickers and proceeds to tell me that there's no reason to buy hollow points and that they are a waste of money, and that they will go through walls just as easily as FMJ.
I replied "not when it leaves this (size of nickel-quarter with my fingers) going in, and this (spread the opening of my hands 4 - 6 inches to signify a hole) coming out"
He said "I just went through ballistics training in the army and hollow ponts have a 90% fail rate (meaning only 10% of the rounds I buy will expand correctly).
At this point I was through talking to him because he was the 'know it all army guy' and I was the 'uninformed civillian who couldn't possibly know anything about firearms.'
I decided to get 100 rounds of 'target ammo', and that made him snicker AGAIN because
"I can't believe I come back from a war and they are calling this 'target ammo'. This will do what you need, its the same ammo we use in the military."