jkh@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard) (02/19/86)
Article: 2:1 I've just been reading about defensive ammo in the April 1986 issue of COMBAT HANDGUNS. They say that the most effective manstopper is the Glaser Safety Slug, but this load is not easily obtained around here. Does anybody know how it works? The author said that better than 90% of the people shot by these died at the scene. Another good manstopper is the Hydro-Shok. This round is more easily had around here but why? The article doesn't go into how it works. Another interesting round is the Quadraplex bullet from Power Plus Enterprises, Inc. P.O. Box 6070, Columbus, Ga. 31907. In .38 special it is a 65 grain soft point in front of 2 50 grain wadcutters. It produces 3, 5, and 10 inch patterns at distances of 7, 15, and 25 meters respectively. It's also available in .357 with 3 wadcutters. Now this sounds like a great in-home defensive load.
jfka@erc3ba.UUCP (02/23/86)
Article: 2:6 Glaser slug works by transferring a very high percent of its energy into the target via the use of (if I remember right) encapsulated BBs. Once the target is penetrated, the shell breaks apart, sending BBs through out. Instead of a neat hole clear through, there's a hole and a tremendous mass of mangled flesh, etc. Sort of taking holow point expansion one step beyond. Jon Kaplowitz erc3ba!jfka
jkh@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard) (02/23/86)
Article: 2:7 The saftey slug is a copper cup filled with lead shot that is capped with a fragmental plug. When the slug hits the target the cap fragments and the cup splits open dumping the shot and all of the slugs energy into the target. The hydroshock slugs, the ones I have seen, are hollowpoints with a post in the center. When the slug hits a soft/wet target. The hyraulic pressures generated as the material flows over the post cause the hollow points to expand. This expansion is supposed to be more reliable at slower speeds than normal hollow point. John Mireley