We Get Letters

"If hollow-points are that good than why don't the military's of the world use them?"

Treaties. Dumb old treaties. Forbidding weapons of war that might cause undue suffering. When the Brits hit upon making soft-nosed bullets at the Dum Dum arsenal India, word soon spread...as word has a tendency to do...about projectiles that flattened out, or mushroomed, in order to generate greater wound cavities, and the screachy treehuggers didn't stop weeping until the Hague Convention of 1906 expressly forbade such munitions. The United States is not a ratifier of the HC, but follows certain of it's stipulations such as banning the use of hollowpoint bullets. There ARE exceptions, but for now I'm not getting into that.

Full metal jacket bullets are easier to manufacture, and present a smoother, more reliable feed from the magazine of a semi-automatic and into the chamber. Hollowpoints can therefore be a problem in certain handguns, and the last thing ours or anyone elses military wants to do is to engage in a harangue concerning the plus and minuses of different types of bullets. Not for a sidearm. And this is one of the reasons military men fell in lust with the .45. Already bigger than most other handgun projectiles, the .45 ACP made a wider would channel and improved the chances of stopping an enemy dead in his tracks. Not that a 9 mm is shabby in the hands of an experienced, expert marksman, but there are not that many of such lot out and about. The VAST majority of people recommending this weapon or that, have never engaged in a serious social confrontation and are relying upon unreliable drivel to make not only their own decisions, but to influence others as well. Jeff Cooper used a pistol to dispatch perhaps 3 men, and will forever be remembered as the guru of Handgunnery because he was in the right place at the right time for such accolades to be heaped upon him. Not that the Colonel is berift of ANY knowledge concerning the firsthand effect of lead upon flesh, but there are thousands of "measly" Corporals who know lots more but don't have the "credentials" to be listened to.

Use whatever works in whatever weapon works for you. A modern hollowpoint will improve your chances of surviving a gun battle unless you are flat out good enough to make a head shot each and every time you want to. I am not.

Anyone who says otherwise is trying to sell you something, so run, not walk, away from the recommendations of such pretenders.