{"id":13413,"date":"2016-05-26T18:05:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T18:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/?p=13413"},"modified":"2016-05-26T18:05:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T18:05:03","slug":"hornady-45-auto-critical-duty-ammo-better-than-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/hornady-45-auto-critical-duty-ammo-better-than-average\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornady .45 AUTO Critical Duty Ammo – Better Than Average"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Folks get all wrapped up in the process of selecting ammo for their defensive handgun. Too many think very small incremental advantages will have a measurable\u00a0impact on how well or fast a load will stop a bad guy.\u00a0The truth is minute differences are just that and about the most practical way we can sort or classify defensive\u00a0handgun loads is by basing them on an average. After testing hundreds of 9mm Luger, .40 S&W, and .45 AUTO loads I’ve been able to establish an average level of terminal performance.<\/p>\n

So when I’m selecting a load I opt for one that is better than average<\/em><\/strong> with regards to penetration and expansion. What is better than average?<\/p>\n

Any defensive handgun load that will penetrate deeper than 13.75 inches and expand to at least 0.58 inch in diameter is better than average. Hornady’s 220 grain Flex Tip Critical Duty load for the .45 AUTO<\/a> is a perfect example of a better than average load, almost regardless of what it’s\u00a0bullet has to pass through to get to the bad guy.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Folks get all wrapped up in the process of selecting ammo for their defensive handgun. Too many think very small incremental advantages will have a measurable\u00a0impact on how well or fast a load will stop a bad guy.\u00a0The truth is minute differences are just that and about the most practical way we can sort or classify defensive\u00a0handgun loads is by basing them …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2509],"tags":[2669,104,2668,1796],"class_list":["post-13413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense","tag-45-auto-ammo","tag-defensive-handgun-ammo","tag-hornady-critical-duty-ammo","tag-personal-protection-ammo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hujZ-3ul","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7483,"url":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/better-than-average\/","url_meta":{"origin":13413,"position":0},"title":"Better Than Average","author":"gunwriter","date":"August 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"After years of conducting terminal performance testing I thought I would have by now come up with a secret formula to decipher the effectiveness of defensive handgun ammunition. 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