It's fine . Just stick around for a while. If you do, you'll see all sorts of trolls come and go. Then the second guessing you're getting right now will make sense .Google Zach Rogers 21st amendment liquor Sep 30 2012 if need be I guess I can post a picture of my drivers license too
Yep that's me and the shooting I was talking about
O I think you mean the DP Robinson is reasonable. That maybe given that quote. I thought maybe you meant me for carrying 2 44s I get it now
Yep that's me and the shooting I was talking about
As with loading your own match, plinking, and hunting loads loading your own defensive ammo will ensure that your rounds are consistent, have enough velocity, and cycle well in your firearm. However it can make things difficult for you in the event that you shoot someone with them. In my experience in defensive shootings the detective let me speak for 30 minuets about. "What happened" and then asked almost 3 hours about the ammo and handgun I was using. A glock 29 that was factory by slide and frame only combined with hand loaded critical defense bullets I pulled from factory 40S&W and seated into a hot 10 mm case. Not only that the shoot went bad. It took 11 hits to bring down my attacker. Scoring 3 head shots off the bat amounted to little when later I found out the heroin in his system was enought to OD 6 adults. So I began to attack the spine and landed 8 more upper torso hits that ended the fight in my favor. After I was walked out by IMPD and taken to the interview room I found out my attacker was also an African American (I'm white) In a post Trevon Martin world I was quickly seeing my case go down hill. It took 3 long weeks for the deputy prosecutor to decide I did nothing wrong and was free of any charges. After personally talking to Massad Ayoob about the case I found out I did a lot of little things that added up to what could have been a nightmare for me in a criminal trial. I would suggest to you that if there is a defensive load you like custom to your gun have a licensed manufacture make it for you. Should you need it the load data can be recreated for testing. The ones you make won't be admissible in court at all. Also usually a jury thinks little about ammo that was purchased from a shop and thinks more about the evil demons you personally loaded for bear in your home. Just thought I would share. Stay alert, stay armed, stay alive my friends.
If you really believe "revolvers ...won't jam", you're setting yourself up for a big surprise!Yeah 10mm has a lot of issues. I've gotten away from it as far as defensive purposes. But I've also gone to revolvers as again piece of mind comes to play knowing they won't jam. Also I get a lot of true power from 44mag. I take my carry gun hunting, to IDPA/USPSA matches, and to classes. This round does it all for me. And every year I hit a deer and it drops right there I have affirmation that should lighting strike twice I'm going to be ok. Please do post a picture of your WC1911 I loves those guns. Such works of art they are.
Back on topic of "rolling your own" defensive loads.
Odds are you don't have the knowledge, testing facilities, and resources that a major manufacturer has. Improving on a modern hollowpoint is a lot more difficult than just "make it go faster", which can actually be counter productive. The bullet is designed to open at a certain velocity, and pushing it outside of that velocity on either the upper or lower end will reduce performance.
Faster does not always equal better. The "petals" of a hollowpoint are like little air brakes. Deploy them too soon and too much and you'll reduce your penetration. Push the bullet too far beyond its tolerances and it will fragment easier, resulting in wider but shallower wounds. You see this more in rifle bullets, such as the .223 where lightweight bullets have wildly different results based on tiny factors of yaw, angle of impact, etc. Slower, of course, also does not always equal better, resulting in failure to expand and over penetration, or the worst of both worlds, failure to expand AND failure to penetrate.
The engineers who matched a given projectile with a given load know that, and they know the range its designed to work in. Its easy to get caught up in the ME, FPS, etc. because its sooo much easier to measure. There are just so many variables in how effective a given cartridge will be, and we all want a simpler answer. If there was one, I'd freaking love to know it, because sometimes it seems like random dumb luck plays a huge factor in what's fatal, what's incapacitating, and what's an inconvenience when it comes to most calibers. Anyway, just remember none of that stops an attacker. Getting a foreign object into something vital with enough mass and energy to disrupt that something vital does.
Google Zach Rogers 21st amendment liquor Sep 30 2012 if need be I guess I can post a picture of my drivers license too