Cor-bon ammo

[Grendel Guy]

I wanted opinions on the noted ammo. I see that it is made for various calibers, but interested in hand gun ammo. I saw YT clip regarding the .40 S&W by Ayoob. He cited an incident involving a cop and a bad guy. In essence the bg was shot and killed. The cop said he used Cor-bon ammo and when the coroner called the company and asked them when did the start using explosives in the tips of their bullets (or something like that) the response was "We don't".

[Grendel Guy]

Welp, 29 views and no opinions. I'm befuddled.

[jarhead714]

I got some, but I can’t tell you anything about it because I don’t even own a pistol in .40 S&W.😬

[Grendel Guy]

That's fine, I was just wondering about the performance of the round. I don't have ballistic gel but wondering if others have tried it out.

[G-forceJunkie]

Back in the 90's it was the fastest, hottest self defense ammo you cold buy, that was their selling point. 30+ years of technology in bullet design I feel has rendered the need to push 70-80's era bullet designs super fast unnecessary.

[Grendel Guy]

Back in the 90's it was the fastest, hottest self defense ammo you cold buy, that was their selling point. 30+ years of technology in bullet design I feel has rendered the need to push 70-80's era bullet designs super fast unnecessary.

I'd been wondering about the bullets overcoming the the twist in the barrel and accuracy suffering because of this 'shredding'. I remember Super Vel bullets coming out by Lee Jurras and thought this. Latest I saw was the R.I.P. round. I think I have some laying around somewhere bought on a whim. I guess I'll have to break down and get some ballistic gel and find out for myself.

[mofo1111]

I never heard of them shredding. The DPX bullets are 100% solid copper. I don't know if that's the bullet you're referring to. The DPX fly straight and accurate. Good choice as the petals expand wide, with more edge length than a standard hollow point. I did shoot the 40 cal DPX into a small watermelon and recorded it in slow motion. The Speer Gold Dots seemed to have slightly more energy. Lehigh Extreme Defender bullet in 68 grain, 357 Sig cartridge, with a velocity over 2100 fps was explosive (loaded by Underwood ammo). There was a vapor cloud of water that was very noticable in slow motion.

[Grendel Guy]

Thanks for the response mofo. I was curious about the cor-bon ammo after seeing the video clip by Ayoob. Since initiating this thread I've seen other YT presentations by others and see there are quite a few offerings. All are evaluating performance in ballistic gel (mostly 9mm and that's ok). It seems that plain old hollow point projectiles are not as preferred as some solid copper with tips that, for lack of a better comparison, a phillips screwdriver tip. Ballistic gel is kind of pricey and having to purchase a mold to reuse it seems kind of a hassle. I did use some old catalogs soaked in water as a poor man's test media with some.38 special hollow base wadcutters loaded with the projectiles reloaded upside down. Though not as preferred as gel, I was getting six to eight inches of penetrawith recovered wadcutters around .750 (measured with digital calipers) in diameter when measured at the widest point. I'm still in the process of setting up my new reloading bench and when done I'll attempt to try it again.

[mofo1111]

Just make some homemade ballistic gel using Knox and water. There are plenty of YT videos on how make a ballistic block. Just use a generic plastic tub. Maybe use a release agent on the tub like cooking spray (i don't know because I have never made any). DPX uses a new 3 petal bullet vs the old 5 petal. Take pictures after shooting them because I don't think the gel blocks last very long after they warm up.

I don't know what pistol you have, but usually you can convert a 40 cal pistol to 357 Sig with only a barrel swap (MAYBE a spring). You can then try the Underwood 357 Sig ammo also. It would use the same magazines.

[Nego]

I've used cor-bon on the 1,000 yard range. I never had any issues besides it being pricey.