Originally Posted by Ingramite

I like big, slow moving jacketed hollow points.
147gr for me.

I'm fixin to tell you about some backyard range testing that is as unscientific as it gets.

Living here in The Texas Hill Country, I have no shortage of limestone rocks. I like to pile them up on a cedar stump and plink at them from 25yrds (or so) away.

A .45 230gr hardball round will disintegrate a limestone rock the size of a softball upon impact. Dropping down to 9mm I find that I can most closely approximate this spectacular show of flying dust and debris with 147gr hollow points.

I don't know how all of this would equate to felt recoil as I'm using a 5" 1911 and a 5" Beretta 92fs. Heavy guns with long barrels.

It's my storybook inspired unscientific belief that heavy bullets have more knock down power.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
I have been threatening to mix up some ballistics jell but always end up making Jello Shots in mid-stream.