A new flechette bullet! Very impressive.
Hm, I wonder what would happen if the grooves were cut to spiral a little bit?
I laughed at the part about the teeth “ripping through” various materials, like a buzz saw. What a joke. Look up the velocity of the projectile, look at the twist rate of the barrel and calculate how many time the projectile spins in, say, one foot. And the energy delivered by the rotating mass. It’s pathetically little.
Hint: The S&W .40 twist rate is 1-16” and the standard 9mm is 1-10”.
Pretty cool, looks like they just took the flechette shotgun rounds and adapted them to work with a pistol cartridge.
These are cool but I’ll play devil’s advocate:
-That’s a very light bullet for 9mm. Once it sheds the “teeth” there’s very little mass penetrating into the target.
-The video claims these things penetrate any known obstacle, then shows them penetrating a lot of ballistic gel and paper. I think they shoot one cinder block.
-I’m skeptical that the teeth could act in a saw-like manner upon hitting a target. If fired out of a barrel of, say, 1:10 twist, the bullet is traveling almost a foot forward for every 360 degree rotation. There’s no way that you could achieve any real cutting action with the small rotation the bullet would have in passing through a fraction of an inch of material.
-No mention of cost, but I’m guessing it’ll be high compared to traditional self-defense ammo.
-The videos don’t show any comparison to other JHP rounds. You can make cool videos with any ammo but if this stuff is supposed to be better than other self-defense ammo they should show a comparison.
For all I know these things may be the greatest invention in ammo since the self-loading cartridge. But I wouldn’t say I’m “drooling” just yet.
And the one demonstrated is “only” a 9mm round!
Rhu Rooo. More of them danged cop killer bullets.
A R.I.P. shotgun slug would be entertaining.
Beehive Jr.?
The Mail story reports That “Rowe criticizes the R.I.P round because he says that because the shards of this bullet are copper, they won’t pass through the victim.
And furthermore, because the round is designed for 9mm handguns wielded by women, the R.I.P is a cruel home defense weapon because it will only cause maximum pain and suffering.”