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Originally Posted by apollo99
At the time in the 80's they were shooting the same brand the street cops were in their designated caliber. when we had the Winchester 158 gr SWC, they had the same box only in their specific caliber. Same when we switched to Remington. The big thing with the NYPD training at the time was shot placement over caliber. They also weren't big on hollow points.
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Your last statement about shot placement and hollow points reminded me about a magazine article from the mid 70's. Lt. Frank McGee, commanding officer of NYPD firearms section, stressed shot placement while defendlng the departments issue 38 Special SWC issue ammo.
This link is an image of one page of the article with Lt McGee's statement:
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