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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MacFromOK" data-source="post: 3537107" data-attributes="member: 40864">Definitely not a target pistol, but deadly nevertheless... <img src="/images/smilies/new/drunk.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":drunk2:" title="Drunk 2    :drunk2:" data-shortname=":drunk2:" />"In the last couple of years Hornady, Speer and Winchester have introduced .22 WMR ammunition with new bullets that reliably expand when fired in handguns with very short barrels. A great example is Hornady’s 45-grain Critical Defense load, which has an FTX bullet. It leaves a 1.12-inch barrel at about 1,000 fps and produces approximately 100 foot-pounds of energy (fpe). The FTX bullet has a polymer insert in its nose that’s surrounded by five skives (slits) in the tip of the jacket. When the FTX impacts tissue, the polymer deforms quickly, causing the jacket to separate at the five points where it is skived. This ensures reliable expansion to .30 caliber.""Speer has introduced a Gold Dot Short Barrel .22 Magnum cartridge. It has a 40-grain bullet that factory ballistics indicate leaves a 1.12-inch barrel at 1,050 fps and generates 99 fpe. The 40-grain bullet’s jacket is electroplated to a soft lead core. The bullet nose has a “relatively large for caliber” hollow point and five skives that are a little smaller than the Critical Defense FTX’s. When fired into a test medium like water or ballistic gelatin, the little 40-grain Gold Dot fragments and expands to about .31 caliber."<a href="https://www.personaldefenseworld.com/2015/07/mini-manstoppers-using-a-22-wmr-load-for-self-defense/" target="_blank">https://www.personaldefenseworld.com/2015/07/mini-manstoppers-using-a-22-wmr-load-for-self-defense/</a></blockquote>

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