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From: charlesg@tybalt.caltech.edu (Charles Grosjean)
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Subject: Re: PMC .44 Hollow Points
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Date: 27 May 91 13:21:32 GMT
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decwrl!well.sf.ca.us!well!rsl@uunet.UU.NET (Roy Stuart Levin) writes:



#Anybody out there got any experience with ammo from PMC corp.?  A friend
#gave me some rounds for self defense.  They were marked
#PMC 44 S&W spl  and they are VERY hollow points,I dont know if they're
#jacketed at all, their bullets are copper colored (they may indeed be
#copper for all I know or some copper colored alloy) and have no posts like
#a hydra shock.  My friend swears they are hot stuff for a self defense
#round but I know nothing of PMC ammo and this style of bullet.

PMC markets one bullet called the Ultramag.  It is available in .44 and .38
special.  Basically, it is a tubular copper bullet that is driven at very
high velocities.  It isn't really a hollowpoint, instead it's more like a
tube.  Supposedly, it is similar to a bullet that was designed by Abe Flaytau
( the person who designed the Ring Airfoil Grenade) when the military was
considering switching to a new handgun/caliber.  Supposedly it was shot at a
military kevlar helmet where it proceeded straight through both sides of the
helmet.  PMC it seems appropriated the project and made the 38 and 44 special
versions.  Sounds like a fun load to play with on water jugs etc., but its
performance for self defense has not been proven.  Hope this helps.  It's a
bullet that's usually covered in articles on exotic bullets.