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Posted: 5/9/2009 10:11:24 PM EDT
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I have been unable to find much info on frangible ammo other than on the manufacturers own websites. Are their any issues regarding bbl damage/wear?
It seems like a good tool for CQB practice. Thanks for any advise. C |
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I don't think that barrel damage is an issue with this ammo. If it would cause any problem it would be in barrel leading.
Frangible ammo is created by a sintering process. This means that soft metals (brass and such) are heated and compressed under very high pressures, causing a product (a bullet in this case) to have high porosity and a high degree of frangibility. It seems to me that such a product would leave more bullet material in the lands & grooves than a regular hard cased bullet. Anyone agreee/disagree with this analysis? |
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I have been unable to find much info on frangible ammo other than on the manufacturers own websites. Are their any issues regarding bbl damage/wear? It seems like a good tool for CQB practice. Thanks for any advise. C cb, check out this link from GlobalSecurity.org, has some good info, hope it helps. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/frangible.htm |
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It really depends on the ammo.
There was a guy on another site who was an instructor on a Federal LE range. He claimed that whatever frang they were using gave them problems and caused bad throat errosion. I think if you use a good jacketed frangible, you'd be fine though. I load my own with BARNES MPG bullets and RRLP bullets. |
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Frangible bullets will break up into small, less harmful, pieces upon contact with anything harder than they are. This maximizes the round's transfer of energy to the object and minimizes the chances that pieces of the bullet will exit the object at dangerous velocities. Each of the small fragments quickly loses any energy and therefore pose very little danger to any secondary targets. This means that full-power frangible bullets can be shot at target all the way up to muzzle contact without any worries that the bullet or case will ricochet and potentially hurt either the shooter or others. Note that tissue isn't harder than a bullet. Therefore, they will NOT fragment but behave as FMJ. Frangible bullets are designed to limit ricochets in shoot houses and/or where steel targets are used. |
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