| Firearm: Glock 23 Barrel Length: 4" Caliber: .40 S&W Bullet Diameter: 0.400" Bullet Weight: 165 grains Make: Winchester JHP SXT Velocity: 1061 FPS Recovered Bullet Diameter: 0.695" Recovered Bullet Weight: 165.0 grains Distance From Muzzle: 20' |  |  |
There are literally thousands of folks doing their own bullet tests, and Steve's Pages is one of the best. No editorializing, just shooting modern bullets into water, and no claims of scientific authenticity, just guys doing guy stuff.
Without fucking it up like some other folks we know. Without making recommendations based upon laughable parameters. Without ever having fired a round in anger.
PS: And by knowing what he's doing, I refer to the fact that some people can spot an anomoly and not report it as fact. During one of my many dicking-around-in-the-woods sessions of a zillion years ago, I had a Laugh-In moment. I squeezed the trigger on a S&W 29 and nothing happened. Like a good boy I waited a moment or two before lowering the weapon, then pow, the round finally decided to ignite, and as random chance would have it cranked into a dead old tree that was awaiting a stiff breeze to give up the ghost.
The tree toppled and my buddies laughed their asses off about my super-dee-duper delayed action tree-killing handloads. Now, a really dumb guy then relates how powerful a .44 magnum is. Someone who's been around longer than a nanosecond understands that shit happens.
If you don't understand something, then don't tell the story to thousands of people before speaking with someone who DOES. Bad advice is the bane of the internet and when it comes to live & death scenarios the chairborne commandos should really STFU. Not that an opinion is a bad thing, but dogmatic doublespeak from the sort of folks that attend, oh, say, Thunder Ranch, can get a person killed.
Soon to come: Chamber your semi-auto any damned way you please, but if you DO use the hand-over technique then try NOT to shoot your fingers off.
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