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Thread: Carrying .380 Ball
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May 5th, 2022, 10:56 PM #21
Re: Carrying .380 Ball
I'd carry lead round nose before fmj, atleast there's a chance of it flattening out.
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May 6th, 2022, 07:06 AM #22
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May 6th, 2022, 09:35 AM #23Grand Member
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Re: Carrying .380 Ball
If you can find it Winchester produce a Truncated Projectile/Bullet ,similar to a what us old timers called a Dum Dum !
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May 6th, 2022, 03:01 PM #24
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May 6th, 2022, 05:37 PM #25Senior Member
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Re: Carrying .380 Ball
I personally would replace it with something that reliably feeds/shoots self-defense ammo. It is better to have what you have rather than be without a sidearm, but there are a lot of great options out there that will do the job with self defense ammo.
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May 7th, 2022, 11:57 AM #26
Re: Carrying .380 Ball
My LCP wouldn't feed anything resembling a flat or hollow point. FMJs fed fine. Sent it down the road. My Kahr P380 feeds everything I ever tried in it. Carried daily with Buffalo Bore 90gr. +P JHP.
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May 8th, 2022, 01:31 AM #27
Re: Carrying .380 Ball
My first and second gen LCPs and my Glock 42, feed everything I've fed them, round nose, XTP, FTX , PDX, sig elite, etc.
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May 8th, 2022, 09:06 AM #28
Re: Carrying .380 Ball
I do not carry .380 but if I did, I*d probably carry ball ammo or something like the Underwood Ammo Xtreme Defender or Penetrator. Regarding .380, my bigger concern is penetration over expansion, especially during cooler weather and people wearing more layers of clothing.
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May 8th, 2022, 02:10 PM #29
Re: Carrying .380 Ball
Agree 100% Everyday loads is ball 1st, 3rd and fifth with Speer LE hollow points on the rest. Carried ball loads or hard lead loads for the first 50 some years until a friend gave me several boxes of Speer Lawman 90 gr. Gold Dot HP. We have carried the Gold Dot series of HP since the ISP uses or used the same ammo and figured it was one less thing for a shady lawyer to have a hissy fit about.
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May 8th, 2022, 02:29 PM #30Grand Member
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Re: Carrying .380 Ball
In retrospect ,I owned a Bersa/Firestorm 380 a few years back,It fed all ammo but I would never shoot Wolf Steel, Its hell on the extractor 1
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