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Doc has also tested the Critical Duty rounds and posted those tests., along with a wealth of other info.
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I do, we call each other regularly.............

Fixed that for you.

The guys I have talked to tell me it's the best 9mm load they have ever tested.

New Gold Dot design. Think roughly a combo of Gold Dot and Critical Defense tip

It's secret. Shush.

Back in 2006 we couldn't get any Gold Dot without a 10+ month wait, so I bought 124gr +P Ranger-T because it was in stock right then.

I worried about using a non-bonded loading, and said so in a...

Doc tends to shoot from duty pistols unless specifically noted.

http://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php?7205-New-Service-Caliber-Handgun-Tests&highlight=barnes

Pretty sure that's exactly the same stuff he tested. I need to dig up his last paper on that.

Yes, the Barnes loaded ammo. And it says +P on the box, but I not the velocity is only in the 1000s, most of the +P 115gr I have fired over the years is over 1200fps.

Recoil is kind of...

I've noted that Barnes version is one of the lowest recoil 9mm rounds I have ever fired. The first shot out of that box I launched I stopped and checked to be sure it wasn't a squib.

At my job we issue the 124gr +P Gold Dot. There is not ball ammo that totally duplicates that load. What we found out is that it really doesn't matter. Standard velocity 124gr ball shoots to the...

Almost anything that will run your gun will work for practice ammo.

Copy Doc, was just delving into some of the history since it turned that direction for a bit. I often like to dig into the why-how-when of the info we have and use, sometimes we end up using TTPs or...

I'm going to throw out a theory;

People in California often wear less clothing than in places like Alaska, leading to non issues with heavy clothing clogging the bullets and early success of the...

For a duty round I don't think it does as well as the others through glass, which can be very important to some folks depending on mission profile.

If it was what I could get a good supply of I...