![]() You can have both expansion and penetration. So if you have a short barrel, you no longer have to feel insecure. That’s what allows it to travel fast enough from a short barrel gun to expand reliably while still penetrating to effective depths. It’s just lighter than most other 9mm projectiles. It’s a regular, expanding, all-copper (I think) bullet. The DoubleTap 9mm 77 grain lead-free round is not in any way, shape, or form in that category. That’s according to the marketing material. I’ve always been skeptical about those lightweight wonder rounds that travel at Warp 17, fragment explosively and cause nuclear blast damage. More importantly, all five expanded beautifully as you can see in the photos here. All five rounds stopped between the ten and eleven-inch mark. I fired five rounds through the four layers of fabric and into a 16” Clear Ballistics gel block. It turns out that the light, lead-free, bullet design does exactly that. While I use this optic and mount combination for accuracy testing, it would make a great hunting configuration for an appropriate semi-automatic pistol.Įxpansion started about one-inch into the gelatin block. It’s a brilliant combination that’s been working really well for this kind of thing. You can mount this optic to nearly any pistol equipped with a rail using the UM Tactical mount system. I added a Bushnell Elite 3500 Handgun Scope, which provides 2-6x magnification, long eye relief, and a near perfect sight picture, especially at a close range like 25 yards. beat of a wasp's wing, he reviewed firing a double tap through the chest. To take some of the “compact gun” sighting challenges out of the equation, I shot groups with a Sig Sauer P226 SAO. Filling her coffee mug, she glanced down and did a double take at Red's pistol. For the full-size I chose a Sig Sauer P226 SAO, also because it’s a super-sweet gun. I chose that one mainly because it’s a super-sweet handgun, but also because it has a 3.0” barrel – right in the sweet spot of pocket 9 barrel options. ![]() The short barrel test gun was a Springfield Armory EMP. I tested velocity from a short barrel and full-size gun. That’s interesting as the rated velocity is 1,600 feet per second from a Glock 17 and 1,435 feet per second from a Glock 26. This round is loud but amazingly soft to shoot. One of the big advantages of using a lighter projectile is that perceived recoil is much, much less than you would expect. I got several boxes to test for velocity, accuracy and, of course, shooting the gelatin to see if it would perform. This round is 77 grains of pocket wonder. He’s designed a lightweight, all-copper, projectile that is optimized specifically for pocket 9mm guns. Recoil was shockingly light when fired from this Springfield Armory EMP.Įnter the Godfather of Boom, Mike McNett of DoubleTap Ammunition.
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