Also:
You'll be hard pressed to find any professional LEO who does this with their duty weapon.
Just not a good idea from a consistency standpoint.
Or any legitimate trainer.
Also:
You'll be hard pressed to find any professional LEO who does this with their duty weapon.
Just not a good idea from a consistency standpoint.
It's funny how some bad ideas just refuse to die. This is one of them. If you are using the best ammo you can find, why would you stagger it with something less? FMJ has no business in a EDC handgun. There are plenty of good hollowpoints that will perform much better in flesh and still hold together in intermediate barriers.
Or any legitimate trainer.
It's funny how some bad ideas just refuse to die. This is one of them. If you are using the best ammo you can find, why would you stagger it with something less? FMJ has no business in a EDC handgun. There are plenty of good hollowpoints that will perform much better in flesh and still hold together in intermediate barriers.
But you (nipprdog) said legitimate....oh... Never mind.
Staggering tracers is a good way to know how much you've shot without thinking about it.
Whatever you do, it's best to keep things as simple as possible when SHTF. The more brain cells you utilize to think about other things while in the heat of the moment are just going to make you that much less focused on the task at hand.
Not counting rounds and having visual q's is a great way to free up some of your CPU cycles so you will have them later in the critical moments where you might need to devote a few more brain cells to that trigger finger, to tell it not to shoot at the wrong target in a split second.
K.I.S.S.
Hey! I know who my father is.
Nope
What I do is put one of every type that I can find in the mag and when I get have to shoot I dump the mag. Later I ask the hospital which round was the most deadliest.
I load my revolver with a different round in each chamber. Then I can pick what I want to shoot. For instance if I need the HEAT instead of the anti-zombie round. My favorite is the grappling hook. . I only carry this gun when I am wearing my open carry cape.
When I am incognito and packing my EDC, I just load it with quality hollow points.
First set of tracers to help find POI, second set of tracers to help keep POI, last set of tracers to let me know mags about empty. I don't have all of my AR mags loaded this way, just the 10 that I keep in my BOB.
It's funny how some bad ideas just refuse to die. This is one of them. If you are using the best ammo you can find, why would you stagger it with something less? FMJ has no business in a EDC handgun. There are plenty of good hollowpoints that will perform much better in flesh and still hold together in intermediate barriers.
I do. The first two rounds in every magazine are ball ammunition, and the rest are blue Glaser rounds. This is in case I have to shoot through something solid (window, door, wood, etc.) before acquiring my target.
In my service rifle, my combat load is an alternating pattern of three green tips, followed by one tracer. Additionally, the first three rounds in every magazine are tracers.