When did people start using Hollow points for practice?
When they started staking their lives on it.
I use mostly hollowpoints for practice. No real price difference, at least at retail.
Seems simpler to order one type of ammo rather than separate rounds for practice and enforcement. These aren’t SEALs or SFOD-D, they’re SSA Enforcement Agents. They’re only going through 600 rounds a year ... I doubt technical round selection is a major component of their job.
SnakeDoc
Well, speaking just for myself, I take the same rounds to the range that I keep in my magazines. I tried FMJ's once in this pistol, and it doesn't like them. Not one jam with self-defense rounds, but several just going through one box of the cheap stuff.
When did people start using Hollow points for practice?
If you think about it full automatic weapons are not a problem in the general populous because it takes a government to provide care and feeding for them.
“When did people start using Hollow points for practice?”
This actually comes from the “...every round fired has a lawyer attached to it...” file.
Seems like centuries ago, the LAPD/Sherrif’s reloaded their own practice .38 ammunition. Don’t remember if they were full up .357 at that time, but the practice ammo was lead, and the carry was JS/HP.
Guessing now, but bet a lawyer made the case that training with target ammo, then loading up with “mankiller-carstopper-shreadding-hollowpoint” ammunition was a bad practice.
Enter “train what you carry” rules.
Not a bad idea for those that go about armed so long as inexpensive training ammo is available (reloads?). For agencies, it usually boils down to just buy extra of the carry, and train with that......meaning.....
The 9mm 147 gr hydrashock “subsonic” is a perfect example of an agency round. Works in everything, somewhat effective, and now that it has been manufactured for a bunch of years by the millions, less expensive than switching.
Hollow points become “training” rounds when training with them becomes the path of lease resistance against cost, function, cost, policy, cost, and cost.....
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