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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: billt on May 21, 2017, 06:05:25 PM
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https://www.supervelammunition.com/
For those of you old enough to have been shooting in the 70's, Super Vel Ammunition is back. They had a large following back then, as I'm sure they will now.
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In that same vein I ran across Liberty Ammunition's Civil Defense rounds. It has a copper fragmenting hollow point. In the 9MM, which I have tried in several guns, it sports a 50 grain HP traveling at 2,000 FPS.
It groups a little differently in some of the guns. HOWEVER, my biggest benefit was in the LC9 I stuff in my pocket sometimes. I would not have thought it, but the 50 grain bullets and lightweight case really took the weight off. I really like it.
I have not put the fragmenting round through gelatin or anything like that to verify it blows into itsy bitsy pieces. I like the idea of a round that fragments so that a miss into a wall will go a long way to making it less lethal for anyone who may be on the other side. The cases must be aluminum...really light.
I have some to try in the 10MM, 45 and 357. I'll let you know how that goes.
I will say...one more time...lightening the carry piece was really nice.
http://palmettostatearmory.com/liberty-civil-defense-9mm-la-cd-9-014.html (http://palmettostatearmory.com/liberty-civil-defense-9mm-la-cd-9-014.html)
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I thought Triton ammo made Super Vel for a little while about 10-15 years ago but when I did a search they called theirs Hi-Vel. Triton's other ammo was the Quik-Shok hollow point that split into 3 pieces. I bought some of both and may still have some. No Super Vel though. They had a great reputation and I'm looking forward to reports on their new ammo.
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Quik Shok? Is that the same stuff that is in the CCI 22 LR ammo now? It's some wicked medicine for varmints. I especially like the subsonic 22LR 40 grain that I use to keep squirrels out of the attic. Then there is the 32 grain 22LR with the same velocity as Stingers...I have not used it on varmints yet but I suspect it will be positively devastating.
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I don't know if anyone else besides Triton made the Quik-Shok center-fire ammo or not. When I search for Triton ammo all I come up with is something about the .40 Super and brief mentions of Hi-Vel ammo. The .22 LR Quik-Shok ammo I bought was MPB brand before CCI bought them out. As far as I can figure out someone owned the Quik-Shok name and sold the rim-fire and center-fire rights to 2 different companies. The bullets split into 3 pieces on both the center-fire and the rim-fire.
http://www.ammo-one.com/22Box-Quik-Shok.html