Hyrda Shok, Gold Dots, Ranger, or Golden Sabre

[HenryinFlorida]

I just ordered a couple of boxes of Speer Gold Dot HP for short barrel for my CW45. Their suposed to be designed to maintain velocity in short barrels. The Gold Dots are always at the top of the lists for defensive ammo.

[Barth]

Originally Posted by HenryinFlorida

I just ordered a couple of boxes of Speer Gold Dot HP for short barrel for my CW45. Their suposed to be designed to maintain velocity in short barrels. The Gold Dots are always at the top of the lists for defensive ammo.

The Speer GDHP Short Barrel ammo performs well.
But does so, in part, by way of a very aggressive, large, deep HP.
From a revolver this means nothing.
Feeding though a auto loader,
much like their famous Speer 200 gr Flying Ashtray of old,
can be an issue with some guns.

My MK40 choked on the the 180 gr Short Barrel after a 200 round break in.
It may feed now I'm at 500+ rounds.
They are expensive and I never went back to check.
Speer GDHP 155 gr feed fine and have been chronoed at ~1150 fps from a 3.0" MK40.
Plus I can get regular Speer LE GDHP Duty 155 gr in boxes of 50.
So that's what I run in my gun.

Moral to this story is make sure your gun will reliably feed those
Big Mouth Bass HPs.

My favorite .45 round is the Winchester Ranger T 230 gr.
That's what's currently loaded in my SIG P220.
And my current EDC Glock 27 is loaded with
125 gr Sig 357 Ranger Ts as well.

[Deano]

I've done much searching on the subject, and all rounds listed are reported to be good. In regards to the Hordady Critical Defense vs. Federal HST, everything I've seen reports better penetration from the Hornady and better expansion by the HST. Enough of a difference that I'm considering Hornady for the dead of winter for better thick clothing penetration, HST for warmer months where penetration is less of an issue, and maximum expansion is what you're after. I'll dig around and see if I can't find some of those reports.