This is the ultimate personnal. SHORT BARREL VELOCITIES Test Firearm.
492020 Speer at the behest of the NYPD designed a new round to perform better when fired from snubnose revolvers a 135-grain JHP P 38 Special short barrel.
Speer 38 special short barrel. The trouble is of course that the factory load costs about 100 per round. Remington 158 gr LSWCHP P No. I decided to carry my LCR that day since I would need it to do the terminal testing.
1302014 Speer Gold Dot 38 Special P 135 Grain Short Barrel Denim and Clear Gel Test Back in November I got out to the range with a big block of gel and 4 different 38 Special loads to test. 11302014 These short barrel revolvers are probably most often chambered in 38 special. This ammo is designed specifically for short barrel compact guns.
12192012 Clear Gel Terminal Testing Speer 38 Special P Short Barrel Gold Dot Hollow Point This Speer Gold Dot offering can be found in 20 count Retail boxes or in 50 count Duty Ammunition boxes. P Hollow Point Ammo. For this test we used ammunition from a 50 count box provided by Ammunition Depot.
Speer Gold Dot 135-grain Short Barrel Personal Protection. Speer 135 Grain Jacketed Hollow-Point JHP Ammo Details This is 38 Special Law Enforcement Grade Speer Gold Dot Short Barrel 135gr. It is designed to work in barrels as short as 19 inches while producing less felt recoil and achieving reliable expansion and penetration.
Short Barrel 38 special P. So here I tested the above mentioned round out of a 2 inch barrel to see if it would expand after passing through a heavy clothing barrier. 7222012 Speer specifications list this round at 945 fps velocity from a 4 inch test barrel.
Speer pulled out all the stops when they came up with this one. I didnt think we were still in an ammo shortage but I havent seen any of that in stores or online. 912006 I recently tried two varieties of well-regarded 38 Special P self-defense ammo in Americas favorite pocket CCW gun the SW 642.
Speer Gold Dot Short Barrel. Gold Dot Short Barrel Personal Protection 38 Special P Important Safety Information WARNING. 38 Special P Short Barrel Velocities Speer Reloading Manual 14 reloading data with 34 loads.
Powders include Alliant Hodgdon Accurate Vihtavuori IMR Winchester. The 38 spl was a substantial improvement over 38 SW but it still wanders along at relatively low velocity when compared to more modern cartridges that were designed for smokeless powder. Speer Gold Dot Short Barrel Ammunition is loaded with bonded core bullets and designed for home defense and personal protection.
I perceived an interesting difference in recoil feel between the old tech. By your standards I think we have some ground rules we have to establish. 135 gr JHP P.
Gold Dot Short Barrel Personal Protection Items 1 to 5 Availability New Products Best Matches Price Low To High Price High to Low Most Popular Top Sellers Product Name A - Z Product Name Z. R38S12 and the new tech. I found the Speer round kicks more sharply.
The Speer Gold Dot 38 Special P Short Barrel load performed well from a snubbie revolver Whats not silly is the inconsistency of 38 Special ammunition to expand reliably especially when fired from short barrel revolvers that are so popular for concealed carry. 812016 Has anybody had any luck finding any of the Speer 135 gr. 11 rows Compare prices for SPEER AMMUNITION 38 Special P 135 gr GDHP Gold Dot Short.
Speer Gold Dot Short Barrel Personal Protection 38 Special P 135gr Jacketed Hollow Point 20Box is designed to work in barrels as short as 19 inches while producing less felt recoil and achieving reliable expansion and penetrationGold Dot ammo features a patented process that forms the hollow point cavity in two stages. It is designed to give you the velocity needed out of a short barrel weapon to get optimum expansion at short ranges. 3302016 Some of you know that for those of us carrying the lightweight revolvers the Speer Gold Dot Short Barrel 135-grain 38P PD round is a good one--about the max recoil one wants to deal with highly accurate and receiving good reviews for function.
I found the recoil of these loads to be quite a handful in a light-weight 38 revolver such as the SW Bodyguard 38 and Ruger LCR 38 Special P which added some. Bullet arriving at 1250 fps and penetrating a foot deep while expanding to over half-an-inch is considered marginal. 7262017 If 90 grains of 38 Spl.
38 UCHP 38 GDHP SB Weight grains 110 Ballistic Coefficient 0113 0117 Sectional Density 0123 COAL Tested 1455. Discharging firearms in poorly ventilated areas cleaning firearms or handling ammunition may result in exposure to lead and other substances known to the State of California to cause birth defects reproductive harm and other serious physical injury. 4007 4009 Propellant Case Primer Weight grains Muzzle Velocity feetsec Weight grains Alliant Unique Speer CCI 500 54 806 58.
Using bullets from Speer UCHP or GDHP SB Speer GDHP SB.
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