Remedy For The "Best Hollow Point" Battle

[beast1989]

I have seen a lot of discussions around the web about the "best hollow point" and there are a lot of couch gurus out there mouthing off "statistics". Hollow points are a bit on the expensive side so its hard to test a variety of them (I havent shot any at all) so I came up with a solution.

Solution: Some of us members who have various hollow point brands (of course in similar calibers) can get together and trade 2 or 3rnds to each person so we can all go back to are places and do our own ballistics test with the various brands we collected at the swap in a cost effective way.


We can either just trade rnds for rnds with each other OR since different brands do cost different prices just pay each other what the rnds actually cost. We would all get to shoot a hand full of different brands and can make an informed decision on our next SD hollow point purchase.


Just a thought, maybe just a pipedream idk (if i was confusing up there ^ sorry)

 

[rebelracer79]

that sounds like a good idea, i would like to do some testing like that if theres more interest in the east

 

[JD8]

How are you going to test them? Just curious.

 

[CorpsVet]

I suspect each shooter would do his own test, wet phone books, gel, water bottles, hams, etc. and report the results.

 

[beast1989]

It would just be nice for each of us to test out some expansion, penetration, etc. without having to buy the whole cow just to sample the milk you know.

Corpsvet is spot on.

 

[JD8]

I suspect each shooter would do his own test, wet phone books, gel, water bottles, hams, etc. and report the results.

Great. What does phone books, water bottles and gel have to do with the human body? Point is that it seems like it would be just another flavor of the "couch" folks criticized earlier, no better or worse. Just sayin.

 

[HiredHand]

Great. What does phone books, water bottles and gel have to do with the human body? Point is that it seems like it would be just another flavor of the "couch" folks criticized earlier, no better or worse. Just sayin.

 

[z06man]

As I see it, it doesn't really matter on a practical level as long as you are using good quality ammunition. Is one better than another on a absolute level? Sure. There are several good choices and if you are using one, you should be fine.

 

[grwd]

You guys would be better off spending some time at the range practicing shot placement than murdering wet phonebooks.

Just pick a premium cartridge and be done with it.

 

[nobuttbrian]

I agree with olyeller. Shot placement beats any other thing.