So you have looked at caliber of ammunition,penetration,fps lethality at your distances. However🥵 have you looked at how your ammunition performs when in contact with intermediate barriers?
A few examples of intermediate barriers are:
1)Ballistic gel
2)Ballistic gel in denim and heavy denim or tripled denim (spring,fall,winter)
3)Laminated Glass
4)drywall
5)sheet metal
6)plywood
7) particle board,
8)regular glass
9) and all variations of above(plywood or sheetrock thicknesses etc.)
Now you might want to say why would I need to know. However, sometimes bad guys : are dressed,or in winter garb,or shooting at you in your house ,or ducking behind a barrier while shooting at you( as an example- use that imagination).
Not every attack will be in your face per se
Does your ammunition fail,when hitting intermediate barriers?
Does a heavy winter jacket make it expand to uselessness? Etc.
Is your ammunition. Any good when?
Have you looked at any of the barrier ballistic results for your ammunition ?
Does your hollow point penetrate more deeply or less with heavier clothing?? What about the wound tracks?
(Hollow point,frangible,polytipped or other)
Is your ammunition any good when?
At what distance does it loose it’s lethality in terms of velocity or velocity after intermediate barriers.?
Is your ammunition any good when?
If a bad guy has a messenger bag across his chest as he is robbing your house,in his winter coat. You surprise him in your house. He fires at youyou draw and fire.
Your bullet must penetrate the messenger bag and contents,the winter coat ( in cold weather states),maybe even a sweater and then the criminal.
Is your ammunition any good when?
What say you all, for the barriers listed and described? Have you given any thought to your ammunition. And the various issues it could encounter?