Way back.......

by RayLee, Tuesday, October 01, 2024, 02:53 (15 days ago) @ JimT

15 or 20 years ago perhaps, there was a gun glossy article from a name everyone would recognize who wrote that when a rural western mountain deputy he carried a 1911 with kosher, accepted hollowpoints for that era.....but he also kept a magazine of factory target semi-wadcutter fmj, a.k.a "softball"

He wrote that, at automobile accident scenes he used those milder target loads to put seriously injured horse & kine & elk & moose & bear & mule deer out of their misery and that those loads worked as well for him for those purposes as buckshot/slugs and magnum sixguns did for other's that he had witnessed.

He also stated that the loads seldom exceeded 700fps. from his commander length barrel and they barely cycled the slide in cold weather when the oil/grease was thickened.