It is intended for across-the-room distances and last-ditch self-defense. Our reasoning was that if you were shooting through a barrier – car door, sheet metal, glass, et cetera – you're probably going to have legal ramifications."
"It is capable of penetrating a wide range of barriers and still providing the knockdown needed to stop a threat. If you think about a threat situation the bad guy will probably be looking for something to hide behind, not standing in the open letting you shoot at him or her. This is designed for many of those situations."
The former, from Hornady Mfg. Co. Chief Ballistics Scientist Dave Emary, and the latter, from Winchester Ammunition Centerfire Product Manager Glen Weeks, represent two starkly different approaches to a common goal-stopping a deadly threat from an assailant. The products, Hornady Critical Defense and Winchester Bonded PDX1, represent the most up-to-date personal-protection ammunition available, and are a "reinventing of the wheel," so to speak, to create superior products within each company's lines. In fact, the loads are likely to displace well-regarded offerings within the companies, as well as shake up the industry....
