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From: snitor!petert@uunet.UU.NET (Peter Toth)
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Subject: Re: PMC .44 Hollow Points
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Date: 27 May 91 21:44:25 GMT
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In article <34919@mimsy.umd.edu> charlesg@tybalt.caltech.edu (Charles Grosjean) writes:
#decwrl!well.sf.ca.us!well!rsl@uunet.UU.NET (Roy Stuart Levin) writes:
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##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.
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#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.  [...]

Ahh, the flying cookie-cutter.

#performance for self defense has not been proven.  [...]

True, but imagagine, if you are in a morbid mood, the result of a piece of
flesh the size of a pencil being excised from a creature. Not pretty.
The projectile stays true to course in gel, and so probably elsewhere as well.

Peter Toth