Freedom Munitions for practice and match ammo. 147gr for plinking and competition, I may go back to 124 the next time I purchase. 124 & 147 shoot noticeably softer than 115gr.
Carry is Federal HST 124gr. There’s not a good correlation between plinking and carry ammo because the self defense rounds are loaded hotter. So you have to practice with your SD as well.
Trigger time is trigger time though. Get a clean, consistent practice ammo and shoot a lot of it. Blazer Brass is pretty decent stuff too.
I shoot lots of Federal aluminum case. Loaded fairly hot by my feel.
Perfecta (last time Walmart had it) is probably way over loaded. It blows large flames even out of my 17's in broad daylight. It spits shards of the jacket onto the table in front of me, and out on the floor of the range. It leaves gold flecks on the internals of my guns. The owner of a local range told me about the gold flecks in his rental guns, and the jackets. So he knew what the shooters brought with them. I had shot at a Glock match weeks before and had jacket pieces appear on the table. Mystery solved! Perfecta in .40 was banned at a range on the Eastern side of South Florida as it blew apart a M&P, and a Gen4 23. I found that on Facebook. Also a shooter on another site had their .357 blow the end ring off of the case in a revolver. Then he couldn't chamber the next round.
I carry HST, elcheapo Remington UMC JHP's. I also carry 124gr Hornady American gunner in +P.
I haven't had those issues with any of the Perfecta that I've used. I have had occasional flecks in my gun with other brass or aluminum cased ammo (I stay away from steel), but I will start paying closer attention.
Better hope you never use this in a SD situation. The DA could have a field day with the jury. You probably don't want to defend yourself in a civil trial with it either. I have yet to see or hear from anywhere about the REAL effectiveness of this round. And that isn't even getting into an over penetration discussion.
Odd that one of the states with the most restrictive handgun/longgun ownership policies, would be benefiting from the sale of ammo that fits most of the weapons they banned !
They now make Xtreme Penetrator (what’s being tested in the video posted) and Xtreme Defender. Defender specifically created to address over penetration in 9mm and above. Youtube has comparison videos.
I carry Xtreme Penetrator in the 42. It doesn’t over penetrate in .380 like it does in 9mm and performs closest to the 9mm SD rounds of the .380 options on the market.
For 9mm, I’m happy with HST and personally, don’t see a reason to use anything else.
I picked up 5 boxes of this stuff called Maxx Tech, and it is about the worse ammo I have ever bought. It's nickle plated steel cased, and when I looked at it, I thought it looked okay, but not. The first squib I have had in years came from this stuff the other day, and I had to sort through the ammo for bullet set back. I had at least 5 rounds per box, that the bullet had been pushed back to where it had to have been pressed into the powder.
Bad stuff I got from this Maxx Tech, so stay away from it.
It was as if the Maxx Tech had absolutely no kind of crimp on the cases at all, and you could use your thumb and push the bullets, deeper into the cases. Even the steel cased Tula I have on hand, does not do that.
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