Re: Why Shoot Black Talon Ammo?
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Ignore that expensive ammunition. Deep penetration is the important characteristic in defensive roles for pistol calibers 9m/m to .45ACP. Destruction, when comparing and contrasting full metal jacket pistol projectiles to hollow point profiled projectiles designed hoping for expansion, is not consequentially distinguished. There is not enough difference between their destruction performance to warrant the higher cost of the round and to risk inadequate penetration.
This makes sense. But if not, there has been testing and research that bore this out. Also, when I was a smaller kid ( ; ) I was interested in shooting things....everything I could except I got in trouble for shooting a hole in the cow water trough with my something or another brand .22 Long Rifle single shot. I shot high-power rifle competition at metal targets, metallic silhouette at various grades of steel; 357 Magnum using all kinds of bullets but especially 158 grain lead, 125 grain JHP, 170 grain Sierra FMJ at concrete, phone books, wet and dry, sand bags, deer, feral varmints such as coyotes; I was always digging for the bullet to see what happened. Lead penetrated well. It didn't peel or fragment as much as hp or fmj. But round nose lead is unattractive and not cool these days.
The 1986 FBI Miami shootout was a gun battle that occurred on April 11, 1986 in an unincorporated region of Miami-Dade County in south Florida between eight FBI agents and two serial bank robbers. During the firefight, FBI Special Agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. The two robbery suspects, William Russell Matix and Michael Lee Platt, were also killed.
The incident is infamous in FBI history and is well-studied in law enforcement circles. Despite outnumbering the suspects 4 to 1, the agents found themselves pinned down by rifle fire and unable to respond effectively. Although both Matix and Platt were hit multiple times during the firefight, Platt fought on and continued to injure and kill agents. This incident led to the introduction of more powerful handguns in the FBI and many police departments around the United States. [
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FBI_Miami_shootout]
Evidence revealed, from the Miami shootout between eight agents and two perpetrators, that penetration is the important matter in low/medium velocity handgun ammunition such as 9mm. I would extend that to 40 S&W and especially 45acp. Notice I am not referring to higher velocity handgun rounds such as magnums, for example
I did not research the kind of bullet fired by agents, but we may all agree the bullets were probably hollow point.
Starched shirt corporate bosses of ammunition and gun makers want you to believe expensive hollow point bullets are necessary. They are not really all that. Unless its +P+JHP, grab full metal jacket or solid lead. FMJ or lead, fired accurately, i.e.; having honed one's shooting skills and not relying on super duper fluffy pretty bullets to do what you can not do, will get the job done if it can get done.
Its my opinion that all police cruisers should be equipped with an AR15 chambered for 7.62x39, at best, a shotgun with slugs and buckshot, in addition to the individual officers' hi-cap semi-automatic pistols in a caliber he and she can handle. One accurate 9mm bullet is clearly more consequential than a mag of +P+JHP Super Hi Vel Red Hell 40's that miss.
Shoot high velocity FMJ. That is my opinion based on my experience and what I think I know</span>
