Thursday, May 18, 2006


Fuzzy Fletcher (real name) made these for Jim Cirillo. Jim is the legendary NYPD Detective who worked with ammo makers on designing some incredibly effective handgun bullets. Problem is, they work TOO well and the Loons scream bloody murder whenever one of their pet criminals is shot by anything that gives them an ouchie.

The notched-type was employed to get a good grab on bone (certain gremlins have massively thick skulls), and lo and behold they expanded to a square mushroom shape after penetration, something no one figured on but were really happy to see. The fang-face type rounds are variations on the old Pin-Grabbers that were made to smack the living hell out of bowling pins, but almost by accident someone used them on a real target, and lo and behold the results were more than impressive. The wadcutter look-alikes saw lots of service with the NYPD and had special cores that allowed them to punch through dense bone. They, like a lot of the other magnificent munitions, are used sparingly these days because if the press gets wind of something so horrible, well, there goes a career. One of these days someone is going to invent the ultimate cop-bullet and have the sense to call it something akin to Softie-Marshmallow-Fluffy just so the media doesn't zero-in on the name and have a field day exposing "killer-cops".

And for amusement purposes only of course, munitions such as these have been seeing action in the sandbox for quite some time now, and the reviews are excellent. But not really. No.

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