Saturday, September 09, 2006

Cheap Personal Protection Ammunition

1010 fps, and a sleeper. $18.79 @ Midway, or $17.00 out the door at Wally World. Surprisingly accurate, and clean, it will expand to .70 and penetrate over 12" of ballistic gelatin. If price is an object then this is the ammunition to use, and I recommend it to the cash-strapped college kids in the area.

I'd include Federal's HST, the premier self-defense round currently on the market, but it cannot be found at Wal-Mart, or for that matter ANY local store or gunshop in my neck of the woods. So while it's $25 delivered price is still a great bargain this isn't something you can pick up on the way to the range. Then again, once you've proven that it'll feed, fire, and fling in your bottomfeeder there's not much reason to be target-shooting with it. BUT...if and when you do happen to run dry, a box of Winchesters will tide you over until UPS comes a'knockin'.

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