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Should You Fire .32 ACP from a .327 Federal/.32 H&R Revolver? I get a lot of people telling me that a .327 Federal Magnum is very versatile because you can use 5 different cartridges (.327 Federal, .32 H&R, .32 S&W Long, .32 S&W and .32 ACP), but can/should you? They say .32 ACP is the cheapest one so you should shoot .32 ACP ammo in it. I do some experiments on this and give my opinion.
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What is the deal with these "there's no .327 Federal Magnum ammo anywhere, and when I find it it is $100 a box" comments? I don't get it. Anytime I release .327 Federal Magnum videos, it's because I purchased .327 Federal Magnum ammo either online or in a store. It's not that hard to find and when I do find it, it's not prohibitively expensive. There's a lot of people living in a different world than where I live, that's all I will say. I like the cartridge, I buy the ammo (or hand load it) and I shoot the ammo, case closed. Please stop the nonsense people.
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Friendly Reminder - Stop Screaming about +P Ammunition "Fairness"
Under SAAMI Spec the only handgun cartridges that can also be loaded to a +P level, are:
1. 9x19m+P
2. 38 Special+P
3. 38 Super+P
4. 45 ACP+P
On a daily basis I get ALL CAPS comments, probably a dozen times a day in my cartridge comparisons that "YOU USED .38 SPECIAL+P AND NOT .380 ACP+P, UNFAIR". I get the same thing about 9mm+P VS .40 S&W VS .45 ACP+P, when those are the only variants often times where a certain load only comes in a +P variant as where, a big "duh", cartridges that do not exist in a +P cannot be tested. Many of the examples of screaming I get about not testing +P are as follows:
1. 357 Magnum+P
2. 44 Magnum+P
3. 380 ACP+P
4. 40 S&W+P
5. 357 Sig+P
6. 10mm+P
Those are just some examples. For the record, normal companies like Speer, Federal, Remington, Winchester and the like, are SAAMI member companies, they go by these specifications.
Some people argue they have seen .44 Mag or 10mm+P and so on. Well this is because smaller companies will over-charge a specific caliber which may or may not be safe, and label it as +P or +P+ to indicate it is not within SAAMI specs. Those you use at your own risk, and if you don't understand all of that than you probably shouldn't use them ever.
Complicating things even more are the standard pressure crowd, who will find a ".38 Special standard pressure" and talk all it's safety merits and how it's the best and safest cartridge for a revolver not rated for +P, and they show me and it's Magtech, Fiocchi or S&B or the like.....which are foreign rounds NOT under American SAAMI specs. For instance, SAAMI spec for .38 Special is max pressure of 17,000 PSI and for .38 Special+P max pressure of 20,000 PSI.
Foreign ammo often goes under European CIP standards of just ".38 Special" having a max pressure of 21,756 PSI, well above the max for American SAAMI .38 Special+P. If someone labeled a CIP ".38 Special standard pressure" it would be in American standards ".38 Special+P+".
One more thing in "fairness" is that +P doesn't mean the same increase for all cartridges. For instance, a 9mm+P could very well be 35,001 PSI when the max for +P is 38,500 PSI, and let's say there's a .38 Special+P, to be a +P it could be just 17,001 PSI but it might be loaded to 20,000 PSI, or vice versa and on top of that, the hottest .38 Special+P is going to be about half the pressure of a 9mm+P so really, a standard pressure 9mm VS a .38 Special+P is NOT fair, not unfair for the 9mm, but unfair for the .38 Special.
Nonetheless my tests are NOT competitions, they are comparisons. If I wanted to compare .500 S&W Magnum to .22 Short, this is still a fair comparison as there's points to compare, they aren't competing. Last thing, if you don't like what I do than shut it off, go buy your own ammo, do your own testing and stop complaining.
To my loyal subscribers, thank you for watching my videos.
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More barrel length does NOT automatically mean more velocity
When I used to test .380 ACP ammo with an LCP, I got non stop comments to test it through a longer barrel so I could get "more velocity". Now that I switched to an M&P EZ as it's easier on my hands, I get non stop comments to use an LCP to get "more realistic velocity".
One of the biggest misconceptions I deal with on a daily basis is that "more barrel length means more velocity, period" with the biggest thing they do not calculate in - caliber/cartridge.
Without getting into all the minute details of rifling twists, gun design differences and all of that, I will talk caliber in general. In the pic I posted, the velocity difference between the 2.75" Ruger LCP and 3.68" M&P is basically none, with my example having a couple loads higher in the LCP than the M&P, but it can go either way.
Why is this? It is because more barrel equaling more velocity is a lie. With certain cartridges, for example - .357 Magnum, you DEFINITELY will see massive increases in velocity from a 2" to a 4" barrel because of the massive powder capacity, and even up to 16" of barrel it will keep climbing. With stuff like .380 ACP, some loadings of .38 Special, some loadings of .44 Special and the list goes on and on, if the powder capacity is not that great, there's a point where the cartridge has reached it's limitations and now after that, it's decreased velocity from bore drag.
.380 ACP is one of those where the powder capacity is so low, that you won't see a velocity increase with more barrel over a longer barrel UNLESS it's a hot round such as a +P with a very short bullet. Same thing for 9mm...a 9mm 147 gr, a 3" barrel and a 5" barrel will see very little increase in velocity, but a 9mm+P+ 100 gr bullet will see a huge jump in velocity from 3" to 5".
So my point here, is that more barrel isn't just more velocity period when you are talking mouse calibers or similar. It's no coincidence that .380 ACP PCC's haven't flooded the market.
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I get a lot of comments when for example, I say I am hitting to the left "No, you are hitting to the right!". But what I say is correct. I made a short video where I highlight the exact same shots from my primary and downrange camera and you can see how it changes what you see. Because the camera is below the target, it distorts the impact as much as even changing the sides of the target to where it looks like the bullet hits.
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.327 Federal Magnum fans, for the first time in a very long time Federal has dropped some 85 gr Hydrashok ammo everywhere. I saw it at several online retailers starting today. I know it's hard ammo to find but it's out there now. My test with this one was decent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3dq5...
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Here we go again...Barrel Lengths Used in Comparisons!
I have been getting a LOT of comments recently on my comparison videos that I am doing everything wrong when I use a 3" revolver to compare to a 4" semi auto, or a 4" revolver compared to a 5" semi auto. "YOU SHOULD COMPARE A 3" REVOLVER TO A 3" SEMI AUTO" they say, and my newest set of comparisons with the 3" LCRX .22 Mag are already getting called out.
I made a visual display of some barrel/chamber travels out of dowels shown in the picture.
Well here's the measurements with my 3" Diamondback DB9, my 3" LCRX and 4" Security 9 from a loaded chamber or cylinder chamber, from bullet nose to muzzle "roughly"(as getting perfectly precise with marks on wood and calipers isn't going to be within 1/1,000th of an inch).
The 3" DB9 as shown in yellow is a measly 1.95" of actual barrel travel, while the 3" LCRX in blue is 3.35" chamber/barrel travel. That's nearly an inch and a half MORE "barrel" with a 3" revolver VS a 3" auto. With the 4" Security 9 in red, the bullet travel is much closer to the 3" revolver at 2.95" of travel. Considering that revolver cylinder gap takes a tiny bit of velocity and that the rifling starts at about 2.95" from the muzzle, I would say a 3" revolver VS a 4" semi auto is about spot on.
People need to remember, that the ATF measurements standards for a semi auto barrel always includes the chamber, but the measurements for revolver barrels do not include the chamber, thus making same length revolver barrels "longer" for all intents and purposes.
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Only Shot Placement Matters - Food for Thought
Please don't get angry with me, my posts are usually highly influenced by opinion and personal speculation and theories, mileage may vary, but....
I still get a lot of the "only shot placement matters" comments on a daily basis, probably if I had to guess about 30 comments a day that I am wrong about the power of the cartridge making a difference, and that only shot placement matters.
But we have to look at a couple things here, the FBI says that 7 yards is the average for a deadly force encounter which means that these events can take place at 2 yards, and they can take place at 12 yards to form these averages...The people who argue that only shot placement matters are arguing that you need to take a head shot - period. Even getting beyond the fact that low powered rounds are more likely to glance off a skull, and for argument sake lets say that even a .22 LR is as effective as a .357 Mag wadcutter on a skull....
These people are more or less saying that in the heat of the moment, adrenalin going - which will induce tunnel vision, a drop of decibel hearing ability to near nothing and many other physiological changes, that they will be making these head shots from 12 yards like it's nothing.
This claim would also suggest that with the adrenalin going, they will have no issue making 12 yards head shots with rounds coming their way while they are ducking for cover? Adrenalin is a two way street, it will lower ability to shoot well and it will also raise pain threshold and eliminate anticipating recoil. But the argument is that because they are carrying a .22 of some sort or a .32 or similar, that none of these adrenalin issues come into play for them.
If you look at the Sanow and Marshall one shot stop statistics, .22 LR averages 29.25% one shot stop, .22 WMR averages 41% one shot stop and .357 Magnum averages 91% one shot stop. If we look at Greg Elifritz's alternate look at stopping power where many more factors are calculated in, the .22 LR has an accuracy of hits on head or torso at 76% but .357 Magnum has accuracy of hits on head or torso at 81%? Why is the accuracy of hits higher with .357 Magnum than .22 LR if indeed a person can always make more accurate hits with a .22 LR over a "completely uncontrollable" (as people state) .357 Magnum revolver?
Greg Eliftriz's study is a bit more complicated factoring in a lot more data beyond one shot stops, but I find the "not incapacitated" number interesting. Percentage of people not incapacitated show the .22 LR at 31% and the .357 Magnum at 9%.
So rundown of the information from what I see shows many things:
1. People are not more accurate with even .22 LR than what they are with the (you're definitely going to miss with) .357 Magnum
2. Shot placement does matter but...often times even with proper shot placement with both .22 LR and .357 Magnum, the .22 LR fails to stop the threat at a rate of over THREE times higher than the .357 Magnum.
3. An accurate single shot from .357 Magnum is three times as likely to stop a threat VS a single accurate shot from a .22 LR
4. People who make claims that a person can make a headshot in the heat of the moment with a .22 LR but not with a larger cartridge got that information from their very minimal experience of shooting which probably included "training" of shooting tin cans on a sunny day with .22's VS something bigger.
Again, speculation and opinion. Not trying to offend anyone.
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I stand behind Alec Baldwin....
Because I am not going to stand in front of him.
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I absolutely love double-action revolvers, especially snub-nose revolvers. I do a lot of revolver ammunition testing, but I also test a lot of semi-automatic handgun ammunition. Kid friendly, I never use profanity in my videos. People often wonder my location, and it is simply Michigan.