{"id":7442,"date":"2015-08-28T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=7442"},"modified":"2015-08-28T12:00:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T17:00:19","slug":"field-test-freedom-munitions-45-acp-230gr-xtp-hornady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/28\/field-test-freedom-munitions-45-acp-230gr-xtp-hornady\/","title":{"rendered":"Ammo Field Test: Freedom Munitions .45 ACP 230gr XTP Hornady"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Freedom Munitions <\/a><\/strong>recently sent me their .45ACP 230gr Hornady \u00a0XTP<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Hollow-Point load to field test for you guys.<\/p>\n

Just as a little background, here is a break down of Hornady’s XTP Bullet<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0to put it bluntly, she is one nasty \u00a0round and I DO NOT<\/strong> want to get shot with it!<\/p>\n

From Freedoms ballistics data page<\/strong> <\/a>this round leaves the bbl at 890fps with 405 ft lbs. of energy.<\/p>\n

I did the test with my trusty Glock 21SF, the Target I used was \u00a0a Paul Howe CSAT, The Range was 15 yds standing, which might seem a tad far for a pistol, but I wanted a good medium distance just to get some baseline data.<\/p>\n

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I fired an entire magazine, 13 rounds, for a G21SF. The first cold bore set was to the head, I fired 3 rounds right next to each other right above the square. The following two rounds were a bit spaced, impacting to the left and 3″ below the square. I then moved to center of mass, as my sights settled dead center of the box, my first round went exactly where I was looking and punched it center. The following three shots were rapid and hit below it in a string left to right. The next four shots were errant and spaced, but still within the “kill box”, the first three vertically strung up the left side and then an errant shot to the right. The biggest “gap” between groups was 3″, although in combat pistol shooting I find the ideal of “groupings” and making “smiley faces” asinine, but since this was a field test, I included it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Overall, I was extremely pleased with the ammo, it fed extremely well. Not one Failure to Fire or Failure to Eject. Had even powder burn on all rounds, and as an added bonus, this ammo is extremely clean;<\/em>\u00a0almost no residue in the barrel after a few mags…so much for that “dirty, cheap” stuff, huh!<\/p>\n

As this is a Self-Defense Round, I would have liked to do some penetration testing, but I just did not have the equipment at the time.\u00a0In the future I plan to do some interesting “DIY” Penetration testing with these field test, just to give you guys a rough ideal what this stuff will do to soft (and hard) skinned targets, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n

Until Then…<\/p>\n

Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Freedom Munitions recently sent me their .45ACP 230gr Hornady \u00a0XTP\u00a0Hollow-Point load to field test for you guys. Just as a little background, here is a break down of Hornady’s XTP Bullet,\u00a0to put it bluntly, she is one nasty \u00a0round and I DO NOT want to get shot with it! From Freedoms ballistics data page…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1731,24],"tags":[1986,1987,1988,1989,1990],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}