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I hope they get the Makarov Glaser slugs back in stock some time. I like them. I did some informal ballistics testing on them and a couple different JHP rounds many years ago in 9x19. I fired them into a 5 lb. block of gray modeling clay inside a coffee can (to keep it from splattering all over) with interesting results. The hollow points expanded well and left a thumb size entry hole, a fist sized cavity and burrowed all the way to bare metal at the bottom of the can without exiting. The Glaser slug excavated a crater 6 or 7 inches deep in the clay, did not expose the metal bottom and I was hit in the face (which was six feet away) by flying clay. The only thing left of the slug was a small piece of the base. Over penetration would not be an issue.

Somewhere I have pictures of the clay after it was shot, if I find them I will certainly post them. I did save the recovered “bullets”. From left to right – a copper jacketed HP (I don’t remember the brand), a Winchester silver tip, and remains of the Glaser slug.

very interesting about the sizing. but can't you cut down the 9x19 brass to reload into mak? does the press "stretch" the brass to fit?

Badger, you sure can. I cut down my Luger brass to make it into Mak brass. Only so much of it will be expanded in the die. The rest of the expansion will come when you load it and fire it in a Mak chamber. The rest of the brass case will fire-form to the chamber and you'll be all set after that. It's pretty easy to do.