It must have been the last gallant battle of the Wondernine Wars, but after everybody developed a durable, shootable 9 mm pistol in the 70s and 80s, the ammo industry went into herculean efforts to make 9 mm hollow point ammo that would expand reliably and penetrate deeply. The JHP learning curve went straight up and we ended up with PMC Starfire, Federal Hydra-Shok, Hornady HP/XTP, Remington Golden Saber, Speer Gold Dot and Winchester Black Talon. It was all tremendous ammo with varying degrees of expansion and penetration. Development of this kind of ammo, particularly in 147-grain weight, literally got the 9 mm up off its knees in the performance sense. All of a sudden, the 9 mm cartridge was a contender in the terminal ballistic performance field. That is, until you took the same developed bullet construction principles and applied them to...ah, larger cartridges.
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