Is there such a thing?
Reading Duty and Honor by Grant Blackwood, Tom Clancy Jack Ryan Jr. novel.
"...They were .22-caliber short bullets, but the tips were coated black. It took Jack a moment to realize what he was seeing. These were Glazer Safety Slugs, frangible bullets designed to blow rat holes in whatever they struck....black coating was a polymer cap, beneath this, the bullet's hollowed-out core was packed with No.12 bird shot...."

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Jim

Probably going to shoot them in his glock revolver ......


one of the many reasons I don't read fiction anymore

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Not Glaser Safety Slugs But They (Winchester & Remington + Maybe Others) Made .22 Short Cartridges with disinagrading Bullets Google Krumbleball & Kantsplash for better descriptions.

The bullets were plastic to disinagrate when they hit the metal backstops at the shooting galleries, at the NJ shore points.

No. I think there might have been Glasers in .25 and .32, but they sure were not common. I'm pretty sure they were made in .380 (9X17); I've seen or had them in 9mm (9X19); .38/.357; .45ACP; and I think .44 Special/Magnum.

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Literary license methinks.

I have some in .25 with a blue tip, not black.

Krumble Balls aren't black, either..

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Novels, fiction. Figment of someones imagination. Why not use imaginary bullets and guns? Larry

Good for a laugh amongst us gun enthusiasts.




Chuck

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Often referred to as "frangible" bullets.

No such thing. The smallest caliber Glaser (invented by Kurt Canon) was .25ACP (now produced by Corbon).

There are second generation Glasers ("flat tops") that had AP capabilities and can be identified by a black cap that were made in .357Mag and possibly 9mm, though I personally have never seen an example of the 9mm load.

When Clancy started to "partner" with other writers, details went down the toilet.

There is literary license, and too lazy to research for 90 seconds. Huge difference.

Or an ignorant editor who may have changed .25 to .22 through the book.

Did a finishing shot on a small mulie buck==had to throw away BOTH shoulders and one set of ribs==it was a 32 acp in a Walther PP.

Yep..........
that is why I shoot my deer in the lips...............
when using small caliber.

His first was his best...everything post-Red October, became progressively 'sketchier' and less imaginative.

Clancy was a bit of a pill, too, personality wise.