The Unofficial P64 Resource Forum

nbender,

I am just a 'plinker' and not much of a ballistics expert. Like a lot of people who like to shoot, we set around and debate endlessly as to stopping power, advantages of one caliber over another with regards to size of weapon, etc. But in some of our 'unofficial' testing the 9mm pow r ball was the most destructive load that we ever fired--on milk jugs filled with water. We shot 9mm hollow points, 9mm glasser, 45acp, .357mag, .38, .380 and even .32acp at the jugs and generally what we always got was a hole. Sometimes a larger hole, sometimes smaller, but essentially a hole. The 9mm pow r ball pretty much shreded the milk jugs filled with water.

I will say that we found that we always had to put copious amounts of duct tape on the caps, to get that effect, but we did that on all loads, just to make it fair.

We were shooting about 7 yards or so. Not official results of course. Our methods would've made the folks at Gun-Tests magazine wince, and I don't know what it 'proves' but it is kind of interesting.

I must try some of that 9mm mak pow r ball.

Thanks

I'd think that 9x18 PowRBall would be perfect for blowing up milk jugs. Not for penetrating several milk jugs, but it would work great for taking out one. It expands on contact; especially contact into water which tends to open up hollow point bullets even more than ballistic gelatin.

nbebder,

Well, the 9mm pow r ball sure did a number on the milk jugs we had. After I get some 9mm mak pow r ball (assuming I can find some) I'll let you know how it compares to the 9mm pow r ball, in terms of the 'busted jug shoot-out."