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Old 10-22-2010, 07:10 AM
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With any semi-auto handgun the first consideration must be reliability in feeding, firing, extraction, and ejection. With any fixed-sight handgun the ammunition selected must provide point-of-impact at point-of-aim within the expected range of engagement.

With the relatively limited ballistic performance of the .380 cartridge I would concentrate more on absolute reliability and relative accuracy and less on expansion characteristics or terminal performance.

In my pistols I will not carry any ammunition that has not proven to be 100% reliable, and that includes testing with every magazine to be used. Any ammunition, and any magazine, that won't run through at least 100 rounds without a problem just won't make the grade for defensive use.

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