9mm ball ammo hasn’t been cutting it in Iraq
and Afghanistan. A new military load from
Federal may change that.
ball round, significantly increases the performance of the 9mm service pistol.
For more than a 100 years, 9mm ball ammunition has proven itself to be an impotent man-stopper on the battlefield and, for that matter, on the street. It tends to punch deep, narrow, puckered wounds like an ice pick. People die from it, but don’t immediately drop from it, unless the bullet pierces the central nervous system.
GIs and Marines who had tapped into the institutional
histories of their services’ handgun use in combat over the 20th Century knew that, and it’s why so many of them so strongly opposed the switch from .45 ACP to 9mm NATO by our armed services in the mid-1980s.
Predictably, history repeated itself in the current conflict.
On American streets, what got the 9mm Parabellum cartridge up off its knees and onto its feet as a fighting handgun caliber was the introduction of effective hollowpoint factory ammo for the caliber, pioneered by the great Lee Jurras in the 1960s. The most effective of these loads seem to be the higher velocity versions with traditional bullet weights, such as 115-grain +P+ at 1,300 feet per second or better (Winchester Ranger, Federal 9BPLE) or slightly heavier projectiles in the 1,250 fps velocity range (124 grain, such as NYPD’s Gold Dot and Chicago’s Winchester Ranger Bonded, or the 127-grain +P+ Winchester of Orlando PD).
GIs and Marines who had tapped into the institutional
histories of their services’ handgun use in combat over the 20th Century knew that, and it’s why so many of them so strongly opposed the switch from .45 ACP to 9mm NATO by our armed services in the mid-1980s.
Predictably, history repeated itself in the current conflict.
On American streets, what got the 9mm Parabellum cartridge up off its knees and onto its feet as a fighting handgun caliber was the introduction of effective hollowpoint factory ammo for the caliber, pioneered by the great Lee Jurras in the 1960s. The most effective of these loads seem to be the higher velocity versions with traditional bullet weights, such as 115-grain +P+ at 1,300 feet per second or better (Winchester Ranger, Federal 9BPLE) or slightly heavier projectiles in the 1,250 fps velocity range (124 grain, such as NYPD’s Gold Dot and Chicago’s Winchester Ranger Bonded, or the 127-grain +P+ Winchester of Orlando PD).
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