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Recommendations: Do not shoot remanufactured cartridges unless you can control their quality or reload them yourself. Save your spent brass dry in air tight bags. You may use handloads for self defense, but only if you can be sure of their utter reliability. If you have to shoot in self defense out of a reasonable necessity, and you are found to be in the right, the type of ammunition you use should be irrelevant. We have not heard of any case where the ammunition was an issue, yet. However, with so many excellent factory offerings for this purpose, it is hard to justify using anything else. Keep about five defensive rounds in reserve for law enforcement ballistic testing should the need arise. Renew your defensive ammunition supply, reserve rounds, and magazine spring yearly. Practice with the same bullet weight and power that you choose to carry. Occasionally fire a dress rehearsal in different weather conditions with a clean weapon and a full magazine or cylinder of carry rounds.
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Cor Bon DPX has exhibited both excellent penetration and expansion qualities.
Federal Premium Hydra-Shok heaviest expanding hollow points for urban carry
Federal Premium Hunting heaviest hard cast lead for outdoors carry
Federal American Eagle or PMC for practice until you can roll your own
MTM Plastic flip top ammo storage boxes, great, see reloading accessories.
Pictured above is the 5.5" Ruger Vaquero 45 colt in stainless steel and simulated ivory. This is an example of the Colt Peacemaker style that won the west and became ingrained in the psyche of American culture with the help of movie gunfighters like John Wayne. Most recently manufactured guns like this are strong designs using high quality steels and can safely carry a full complement of high pressure loads that carefully follow the recommendations of loading manuals. Choose the 44mag, 480 Ruger, or 454 Casull version for the same or better power. Colt designed this revolver around 1870 for the self-contained metallic cartridge bearing his name, and the government quickly adopted it as the 1873 Single Action Army. Fewer moving parts translated into rugged dependability in harsh environments such as the Klondike. With its 7.5" barrel and 250 grain lead bullet, it was the black powder magnum of the day. Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders preferred to cut the barrel to 5.5" as seen above, and the sheriff's model was even shorter. The term single action refers to the fact that, like all previous weapons, the trigger only has one action to perform, and that is to release the hammer. The shooter must thumb cock it back for each shot. Fanning the hammer for rapid fire is neither accurate nor recommended, but everyone will try it sooner or later.
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