For example, jacketed hollow point ammunition performs extremely well inside of a live target, while full metal jacket ammunition will not do as well. If the choice is between heavier full metal jacket and lighter jacketed hollow point, I would go with jacketed hollow point every time. It expands on impact, and damages more tissue. However, if there are multiple grains of jacketed hollow point ammunition, heavier is generally a little better.
Your best bet is to try and find some ballistics testing or gelatin testing that others have done to see which performs better. Most people choose match grade ammunition, but there are a couple things to keep in mind. First, the shape of the bullet plays equally as important of a role.
Aerodynamics are extremely important, especially over distance. For whatever reason, some weapons seem to prefer some types of ammunition. Now that you understand what grain means in ammunition, you will hopefully be able to make some better choices with what ammunition you are shooting.
Essentially, just make sure you test out different kinds of ammo, and see which one offers the best performance for your use for your weapon. Competition- Depending on what competition venue and division you are competing in, power factor will probably be important to you and you will need to be sure your ammo is meeting the set requirements.
Competition shooters want minimal recoil and the current trend shows shooters that compete with lighter polymer guns lean towards heavier bullets, while those shooting heavy race guns favor lighter bullets. There are many ammo options on the market, and bullet weight is just one of many considerations to make when picking out the right rounds for you. All of this is good and fine in theory, but what does that mean to you practically? For most plinking at the range, not a whole lot. If your rounds consistently hit the target higher or lower than you want, then you have two options.
One is to put a new front or rear sight on your gun, if one is available. Unfortunately, there are no particular rules of thumb as to what will hit higher or lower. As you shoot those groups to see how high or low they impact compared to your preferred sight picture, you may notice that all else being equal, ammunition with different bullet weights might feel different in your hands.
Which one is better? It depends on the shooter. Heavier bullets are often described as having less felt recoil, but perhaps not enough to account for other characteristics of how the gun feels and behaves through the firing cycle. One weight might have a more rounded tip while another is more squared off and blunt. Certain handguns in particular can be more or less reliable with different profiles. As you can see, you can change quite a few things about the way your gun shoots without the hassle of making changes to your equipment.
For the price of a few boxes of ammunition, you can make your gun shoot to its sights, change how its recoil feels in your hands, and even make it more accurate and reliable. So what are you waiting for? Go shopping, shooting, and experiment! What is Bullet Weight? By McKenzie Hanson. Mar, 30, Sep. FMJ rounds left and 95 gr. JSP rounds right. How does bullet weight affect shooting? When should you worry about bullet weight? The Black Hills 9mm gr. The 22 Long Rifle is a great cartridge for target practice and plinking, especially for novice shooters who are just learning the sport.
The cartridge is usually inexpensive, and its recoil is one of the lowest among all cartridges, meaning you can shoot a lot of 22 LR before you get tired of shooting or run out of funds for ammo.
It uses clean-burning propellants to keep firearm actions cleaner, meaning less need for maintenance, and incorporates CCI's sure-fire priming for added reliability. In recent years, the AR has surged in popularity and has become one of the most common rifle platforms for general target shooting as well as personal defense. While intended for deer hunting, Fusion MSR is also great for use as a home defense cartridge because of its grain soft-point bullet, which offers reliable expansion capabilities.
Hunting: Federal Premium Vital-Shok. It has enough power to take down a wide variety of big game animals, which makes it useful for an array of hunters pursuing diverse game. The Vital-Shok. For shooting clay birds or competing in 3-Gun and similar competitions where you'll be doing a lot of shooting, a light target load with minimal recoil is ideal.
Federal has plenty of different target loads available, but its Top Gun Target load is one of the best in terms of price and performance. The Top Gun Target load in No.
A shotgun is one of the best home defense tools available, and nothing pairs with it better in a defensive scenario than buckshot. Size 4 buckshot offers more pellets per shot than loads using 00 buckshot, which could mean a better chance of hitting the target, and it has a reduced chance of over-penetrating surrounding walls and harming others.
This Premium Personal Defense load offers 34 pellets that travel at a velocity of 1, feet per second fps. While buckshot is great for home defense and has been used to hunt deer, most believe shotgun slugs are much more effective and ethical for big game hunting. The Federal Premium Vital-Shok Truball Deep Penetrator Rifled Slug is great for shotgunners who might not have a fully rifled shotgun barrel on hand but who want to pursue deer.
The TruBall Deep Penetrator uses a simple plastic ball between the wad and rifled slug to produce extremely accurate results for a slug fired from a smoothbore barrel. The 1-ounce high-antimony lead slug travels at 1, feet per second fps and delivers foot-pounds ft. Give a Gift Subscriber Services. See All Other Magazines. See All Special Interest Magazines. All Guns and Ammo subscribers now have digital access to their magazine content.
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