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Topic: Upload your random pictures (part 3)
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 04-12-2007 11:22 AM
I really like that first photo of the slug just leaving the muzzle. The fire around it makes the slug look like it has been super-heated.
A solid copper slug from a high-powered rifle round will definitely be effective at stopping lots of big game. Those rounds travel at much higher velocities than any handgun bullet.
The same kind of metal reduced down to the typical handgun slug size (9mm, .40S&W, .45ACP, etc.) and made into full metal jacket "ball ammo" won't be nearly as effective. The slugs aren't usually quite as heavy and don't have the high velocity. So you don't get as much expansion in the slug when it hits the target.
If I had to use standard ball ammo in a handgun for self defense I wouldn't have anything smaller than .45 caliber. FMJ rounds in smaller calibers don't have enough stopping power and some higher velocity calibers like .357 Sig will over penetrate. The bad guy may not even realize he had been shot. Ball ammo is mainly designed for punching neat little holes in paper targets.
I have some hollow point rounds for my Sig Sauer P226 (Speer Gold Dots in .357 Sig). They have copper on the outside of the slug, but softer silver colored metals on the inside. Contrary to popular belief, they're not cop killer bullets either. A vest will actually stop one of those rounds easier than a ball ammo round since it is designed not to over-penetrate.
quote: Mark Gulbrandsen
Mountain Lions like to live in old mines, bears also hibernate in them. I'm more concerned about running into a badger than any other critter.
A .357 Magnum revolver will be pretty effective at stopping a mountain lion, provided he doesn't blind side you in surprise attack. Bears? You really need a rifle or at least a shotgun for that kind of predator. Even something like a Ruger .480 Super Redhawk or a Smith & Wesson .500 Magnum may not stop the sucker in his tracks unless you hit him in the heart with a lucky shot (on top of that, you can't get a high rate of fire back on target from those hand cannons due to hard recoil). Wild boars pose a similar problem. Their skulls are so hard they can actually deflect many handgun rounds. You'll be scrambling up a tree fast.
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