Interesting. Having not Googled my recollections, I thought .40 CD didn't fare so well in testing...
http://www.tactical-life.com/news/fb...ritical-duty-3
Interesting. Having not Googled my recollections, I thought .40 CD didn't fare so well in testing...
http://www.tactical-life.com/news/fb...ritical-duty-3
Since the FBI is moving to 9mm handguns for general issue, is this contract for .40 intended to cover the transition period until the G17M/G19M fielding is complete, or will this .40 ammo meet a different requirement?Originally Posted by echo5charlie
Hornady Critical Duty is extremely consistent through the FBI test protocol and likely meets their needs very well--while there are loads that offer more optimum expansion or penetration characteristics, there are far fewer that are as consistent through all the barriers...
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Doesn't the FBI have 40 cal MP5s??
The FBI has thousands of Agents spread across the country and the world. There are thousands of both issued and personally owned .40 cal Glocks in service. It not like transitioning a PD with 100 officers.
The switch to 9mm will be incremental and it will take at least a few years before even the issued 40's are swapped out.
The ones I saw were 10mm magic death rays. But that’s been a while ago.
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10mm but most have been pulled from service and replaced with 11.5" M4's.
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Last edited by HCM; 10-13-2017 at 03:42 PM.
The way the contract works, is that there are multiple vendors for each type of ammo. IIRC, there are four categories of 9mm and 40 S&W - duty, training (FMJ), reduced lead, and frangible. Each category has at least two offerings from two different manufacturers. The last time I looked at the 40 contract, there were four duty offerings - 165 or 180 grain JHP's from two different vendors. Which one you buy is up to you and how much you want to pay. I suspect that if Hornady is the cheapest duty offering they will sell a lot, if they are a premium offering, not so much. FWIW, Hornady was already on the 9mm contract as a provider of frangible ammo.
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