This is something my grandpa used to do. He owned a gun store, and alternated the weights of his hollow points in his "cash register gun" (.32spc semi-auto from the early 1900s! And a .44spc revolver). The idea being that whether he needed a lot of penetration, or a lot of expansion; he had both.
On his home defense gun (.45ACP; well that and a Mossberg 500 but we'll ignore that one for a second), the first and maybe second round is FMJ and subsequent rounds are hollow point defense rounds. The idea here being (because, unlike his store, since he lives with just my grandma and has a rural home, there's not a concern of the bullet going through and striking someone else in his mind) that the first or second round will have excellent penetration, and even perhaps less lethality. If they are going to survive (He's not likely to miss, he was a competitive shooter for 30 years), it would be with the FMJ's and not the hollow points. What he always told me with his home defense gun is, if they don't get the message in the first shot, then they have the rest of their life to figure it out with the subsequent shots.
Just got me thinking, do any of y'all do something like that? I'm not a fan of carrying FMJ due to the concerns of a through-and-through shot injuring someone else. But it got me thinking about how alternating lighter and heavier loads of the same defense ammo (Federal HST 124/147 9mm for example) might actually be beneficial, two rapid on-target shots and one is sure to be the ideal bullet for the job.
Not sure if it's something I'd mess with or not (concerned about reliability with that?) but I thought it was interesting. Do any of you do something similar? Especially in a revolver where the reliability concerns don't exist. Heck, in a .357 you could alternate .38spc and .357 and it wouldn't care a bit!
On his home defense gun (.45ACP; well that and a Mossberg 500 but we'll ignore that one for a second), the first and maybe second round is FMJ and subsequent rounds are hollow point defense rounds. The idea here being (because, unlike his store, since he lives with just my grandma and has a rural home, there's not a concern of the bullet going through and striking someone else in his mind) that the first or second round will have excellent penetration, and even perhaps less lethality. If they are going to survive (He's not likely to miss, he was a competitive shooter for 30 years), it would be with the FMJ's and not the hollow points. What he always told me with his home defense gun is, if they don't get the message in the first shot, then they have the rest of their life to figure it out with the subsequent shots.
Just got me thinking, do any of y'all do something like that? I'm not a fan of carrying FMJ due to the concerns of a through-and-through shot injuring someone else. But it got me thinking about how alternating lighter and heavier loads of the same defense ammo (Federal HST 124/147 9mm for example) might actually be beneficial, two rapid on-target shots and one is sure to be the ideal bullet for the job.
Not sure if it's something I'd mess with or not (concerned about reliability with that?) but I thought it was interesting. Do any of you do something similar? Especially in a revolver where the reliability concerns don't exist. Heck, in a .357 you could alternate .38spc and .357 and it wouldn't care a bit!