What is your favorite .45acp ammo for defensive purposes?
I've tried Federal Hydra Shok 230 gr.
Some Remington Golden Sabers, and a few others.
What do you like?
.45acp Ammo?
What is your favorite .45acp ammo for defensive purposes?
I've tried Federal Hydra Shok 230 gr.
Some Remington Golden Sabers, and a few others.
What do you like?
I'm not real picky. My .45 has mixture of ball, Golden Saber +P's, Gold Dots and Winchester Bonded HP's. Somethings gotta work, right?
230gr gold dotsOriginally Posted by swampdragon
230 grain anything - the 45 ACP made its manstopper name with ball ammo. I figure anything that expands at all will do - and I don't feel a bit under armed with ball ammo.
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Store bought I use 230 gr hardball, home rolled I use 230 gr LRN except my mold throws a little bit light like 226, I doubt if anybody will notice the difference. I have a quantity of 200 gr LSWC but I'm a dinosaur, I like big and heavy.
Nothing against the others but I get complete reliability in my old gun shooting this stuff and reliable means more to me than a little bit of expansion when the entrance hole is already nearly half an inch wide. If I need a bigger hole I can stick my finger in the hole and wiggle it around till it stretches out a little bit.
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Just make sure its 230 grain, bonded, hollow point, and made by a reputable manufacturer. I prefer Gold Dot.
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I still use 230 ball, depending on hole size alone to get me throughIn my 9mm's I use HP's hoping they get to 45 size.
230gr seems to be favored here so far for sure.
I've got Corbon DPX, Pow'r Ball, and Starfire in mine.
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LOL, plain ole GI hard ball....I've got several cans of WCC...functions fine and if I ever need it, minute of bad guy is gonna go down!
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Last edited by Dan Morris; 07-22-2010 at 08:26 PM.
Home made with 230g Winchester HP's.
What part of "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" do you not understand?
Gold Dots or Hydra shok but mostly just 230 fmj or lrn for practice.
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winchester ranger 230gr +P jhp
I thought Ranger stuff was LEO?
Maybe I'm thinking of something else...
I think only by policy but I have picked some up from CDNN when they had it.
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You can get Win. Ranger without being a LEO. Adding to what AKTexas said, CDNN does on occasion have deals on Ranger ammo, so does ammoman.com. I got 9mm Ranger 147gr fmj from ammoman a few months back. Only issue i've heard of is if the actual gunshop itself not selling "LEO" ammo to civilians. I got the LEO .45 acp hydrashoks on gunbroker couple years back for my own stash, same stuff I used to carry on duty.
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Stupid net/computer glitch, posted twice.
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever."--Thomas Jefferson
I have Speer Gold Dot 230 gr. jhp. Wish I could afford more. I hear that Hornady has some new stuff out that is supposed to be superior to all.
Can't remember what it's called.
Last edited by l921428x; 07-23-2010 at 03:50 AM.
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230 gr. Federal HST
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230 gr. Winchester Supreme Elite JHP
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