Now, while in the military I've been around a lot of armament and had the opportunity to fire and qualify with all sorts of weapons(M16, M9, Mark 19, M60, M249, yada, yada, yada), but on the flip side in my civilian life I never really got into the sport due to expense and a couple of pacifist wives, so I never found the need to understand the terms associated with it. Well, since I've now purchased a G21 and hopefully within the next year the new Ruger AR15 platform, I'm trying to understand the ammo. You might say to yourself, "What's to understand?", but I'll be honest, I'm ignorant about it.
Anyways, I bought 3 boxes of Speer Lawman trng ammo today due to it's availability since .45 ammo runs out so fast and the clean burning characteristics of the rounds. I hated picking off carbon on my rifle and I'm sure that will hold true on my handgun as well, so the more clean firing the better. I understand that the Gold-Dot's are preferred for self defense since they stop on target and don't go through said target which may cause unecessary injury to an innocent person. Is it uncommon then that someone that CC's uses this type of round for self defense? Also, these are 230 grain. Do the Hollow points have a higher grain capacity? I'm just trying to understand the difference aside from it being a hardball vs. hollow. And last question, what other manufacturers out there produce clean burning ammo? I want to be able to fire good rounds with my equally good handgun. Thanks folks.
Anyways, I bought 3 boxes of Speer Lawman trng ammo today due to it's availability since .45 ammo runs out so fast and the clean burning characteristics of the rounds. I hated picking off carbon on my rifle and I'm sure that will hold true on my handgun as well, so the more clean firing the better. I understand that the Gold-Dot's are preferred for self defense since they stop on target and don't go through said target which may cause unecessary injury to an innocent person. Is it uncommon then that someone that CC's uses this type of round for self defense? Also, these are 230 grain. Do the Hollow points have a higher grain capacity? I'm just trying to understand the difference aside from it being a hardball vs. hollow. And last question, what other manufacturers out there produce clean burning ammo? I want to be able to fire good rounds with my equally good handgun. Thanks folks.