'HOT' 32 acp ammo

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=1182

 

I settled on S&B fmj for my P-32, primarily for feed reliability. I did encounter rimlock once with hollow points, and it was a bear to clear the magazine. I have had 100% reliability so far with the S&B rounds. Their website shows 1000 fps for this round. I chronographed a mag full and got between 960 & 1000 fps. I doubt I can improve on that with anything else.

 

32 Auto (ACP) 73gr FMJ Sellier & Bellot Box (50 rds)

 

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RBCD 32 ACP is a 37 gr. , TFSP at 1815 fps / 271 flbs with 8" of penetration, although GoldenLoki shows 11.4". duncan, I don't know how you are built, but I have a BUNCH of vital parts of my body within 8" of my skin, including by brain, throat, spine at the throat, heart, both lungs, kidneys, liver, and a much of other things that I don't want a hole in. Remember, most of us are not cops, so the parameters set forth by the almighty FBI as being the gospel for cops does not necessarily apply to the rest of us. I don't find 12" of penetration necessary, but Loki only puts me a half inch short.

 

So your comment: 'All that fancy ultra fast stuff is just going to piss off an attacker instead of getting him/her to stop, drop, and flee.' I don't buy it. Loki showed the RBCD doing 1434 fps, yet the Fiocchi FMJ is only going 859 fps. I think I will piss off my attacker with RBCD, you go ahead and piss yours off with FMJ.

Ditto on GoldenLoki's tip.

 

My P-32 only carries hot FMJ's and right now I carry Fiocchi FMJ as well.

 

Geco looks great too.

 

Anybody selling you hollowpoints in 32 acp just doesn't "understand" that if you can't penetrate 12 inches with at least 450 fpe, those hollowpoints may not expand. All that fancy ultra fast stuff is just going to piss off an attacker instead of getting him/her to stop, drop, and flee.

 

So with the HPs, they lose much of their energy digging into the target with a clogged HP. Look at GoldenLoki's data.

 

Cops at my range won't carry HPs in 32 ACP because of tags on perps with leather jackets that deflected the Hydrashoks in 32 ACP.

 

FMJ because penetration is all you really have.

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