9mm Ammunition Tests: The Shooter's Guide to Ammunition for the Browning Hi Power
by Stephen A. Camp
Where The Shooter's Guide to the Browning Hi Power focuses on the gun with mention of a few rounds that have "worked" over the years for me, 9mm Ammunition Tests: The Shooter's Guide to Ammunition for the Browning Hi Power focuses on ammo fired through the Hi Power.
The reader is provided with a detailed look at 12 brands of FMJ ammunition in 115, 124, and 147-gr weights for use at the range. Each is discussed with regard to reliability and accuracy. How well they did or didn't do with factory magazines, Inglis mags, as well as KRD and Pro Mags is discussed for each round tested. Actual chronographed velocities with each load are given along with extreme spreads and standard deviations. Each load was fired through two Browning Mk III Hi Powers. Physical dimensions for each round are provided as well.
Twenty-five expanding high-performance loads are also discussed. These range in weight from the new 50-gr RBCD Tactical, Aguila 65-gr IQ, 80-gr Glaser Silver, and 95-gr PMC Starfire right on through the 115 and 124-gr bullets and the 147-gr JHPs. Ammo from Corbon, Triton, Remington, Sellier & Bellot, Magtech, Winchester, Federal, and Speer are included. The same information given for the "range ammo" is provided for these rounds along with expansion characteristics when fired into water and super-saturated newsprint ("wet pack").
There is a discussion on "if reloading is for you". Various stopping power theories are given, but there is no attempt to "force" any upon the reader. Discussion on what I've personally seen certain 9mm loads do in the hunting field are described, and "anecdotal" information on human aggressors hit with some loads is presented. This work is intended as the companion book for The Shooter's Guide to the Browning Hi Power.
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