Posted on 01/25/2014 10:47:13 AM PST by Islander7
They call it the R.I.P. round and with good reason. G2 Research has released a new ammo that is taking the market by storm and has gun owners all over the country trying to find where to pick some up.
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“I decided that if the police and FBI, etc thought it was safe enough for them to use, it would be safe enough for me to use. They take safety of themselves and collateral damage into account in the ammo they use. I want to be at least as safe as they are.”
Have taken a small whitetail with my Dan Wesson with the 8’ barrel with a very similar load. It really is a hand cannon and very accurate (all the rage at silhouette shooting in the 70’s), but recently I shrunk it down with the snubby barrel and tiny concealed carry grips and it rides comfortably all day long.
I like the safeties on my revolver much better than the ones on my semi-autos.
There are already myriad specialty slug rounds for the shotgun. Not sure this one is really necessary for the shotgun, but handguns, yes.
The modern revolver is Inherently safe. Mine are made by S&W, Ruger and Colt(SAA only safe with 5 rounds). The beauty is you don’t have any safety devices to shut off. Double action you just shoot. Single action you cock and shoot. No grip safeties. No safety ambidextrous or not. Don’t need em.
I have never handled a dan Wesson. I do know they are adjustable for barrel length and barrel/cylinder gap. Cool concept.
I have taken 2-180lb does with a Ruger redhawk (the old style not the super model ) in .44 mag. 1 at 50yd and 1 at 75 yds. Both went down for good after 1 shot. I recovered no bullets. The 75 yd shot was extreme quartering away. Suffice it to say that it traversed pretty much the whole deer and exited the chest. This was a 1200fps 240 grain hollow point Sierra pill. My load once again with IMR-4227(I forget the weight). Off a bench I have made 1 hole three shot groups. Very nice trigger for a stock piece. My back tells me not to carry it any more. I slip a .380acp Colt mustang in my vest for a coup de gras and for varmints. Gonna switch to a Ruger LCP or lc9. Much lighter.
“There are already myriad specialty slug rounds for the shotgun.”
I have slugs for the shotgun.
“They should rename it “fluffy Bunny “ or “ Goose Feather” round.”
Or maybe, the Stay-Puff round, after Ghost-Busters!
“4” Bbl smith model 17”{
17? Typo? Did you mean a model 27?
Model 19. Typo. 4”bbl
Designed by the famous Bill Jordan of the Border Patrol who cajoled s&w to take a K frame .38 and beef it up a bit to handle the .357 magnum. It’s light and a little whippy but shoots full house loads accurately (but not meant for constant magnum pounding) so I shoot .38 +P equivalent lead loads in .357 brass for most target shooting.
Beehive Jr.?
“Non-toxic, therefore healthy.”
Like eating a salad.
Nice revolvers. I had at least one. I like the K frame .38s a bit more. Actually, Taurus made a seven shot ported .357 magnum in Titanium that I thought was about ideal in 6.5 inch barrel. It was ported. The barrel, weight, and porting made up for the lack of a great trigger in double action... though it was decent.
They do not make them anymore.
A very important consideration. My carry gun uses Critical Defense because the name implies defense rather than offense. I also keep a conventional wood stocked shotgun for home defense because of the image.
Agreed. I carry CORBON POWRBALL. I had seen their advertisements and decided to test them myself. I used a plastic trash can filled with nothing but water. When I recovered the slug it had expanded to twice its original diameter and the copper sheath was totally stripped from the lead slug. The copper sheath was like razor blades.
The target trash can was no more than 12 inches thick. It did not exit the trash can. This means that the total energy of the 9mm slug was delivered to the target which means knock down power. Any energy out the backside of the target is wasted. Powrball is good stuff. It will not penetrate a "bullet proof" vest but it will take down a bad guy without one. Even if the bad guy is wearing a vest, multiple rounds will knock him down. 467 foot lbs of energy delivered multiple times will knock you down, not kill you but knock you down. At that point the bad guy is at your mercy.
If they’re referred to as such, they will be banned forthwith in CA...
You could just wash your hands afterwards.
I cast round ball for my .44s, sample soil for lead near every day and even hold a pellet (.177, 10.5gr) or 2 in my lips when in the offhand lane in a Field Target competition and I have yet to pop over any level of concern in my annual blood lead test (I work with hazardous waste and you need an annual physical for monitoring).
So it will lose velocity quickly. It probably won't have much stopping power past 25 yards, but at typical self-defense distance (under 7 yards) it will probably be very effective.
Couldn’t agree more. Here in Norway the local police can inspect how your guns are stored (gun safe must be bolted to an immovable wall.) I don’t waNt any gun looking too ‘tactical’. Just a plain ol’ hunting gun.
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