AMMO TEST: 9mm Hornady Critical Defense 

Aww that's so cute

Hahaha wow educate yourselves ...kryptonite? It's actually uranium thought everyone knew that

I actually have some…lol

Ezra Henderson I cant say I agree on the recoil, I shot fmj then these side by side and these feel a lot less snappy compared to fmj... then again I was using a Glock 19... any 9mm outta a g43 is gonna feel snappy because it’s such a small platform

@@tylersanders3818 They felt the same to me

The G43 is usually snappy, but critical defense was the smoothest shooting out of any 9mm I’ve ever shot, FMJ or hollow point.

Or the 43x

Tracy Clark I agree I like to see the ballistics in a smaller barrel gun cuz I think they're going to be very disappointing so you'd rather have something that's shooting at least 50 ft per second more cuz you're going to lose a lot more than that when you step down a couple of inches in the barrel...

P365

My Shield 2.0 and I love these rounds!

Glock 17 is the standard

What kinda job do you do that makes 7 perps want to break in your house?

chris baker What's the God damn difference what he dose for a living, they just picked the wrong house to fuck with. Not all gang members are super brave as some people think, I think some do think about dying just like every one else, so they hunt in packs like wild dogs, hoping the other guy will get shot, any way they broke in and are now dead or near death. If you take the chance on going into some place you don't belong you could end up DEAD.

"If you go into some place you don't belong you can end up dead." Well no shit buddy, that's common sense! My original question was meaning the most perps I've heard or seen breaking in a house was 4. Usually it's low like 1-3 guys or girls So 7 to me was pretty crazy. I'm not saying it isn't possible or can't happen.

I do understand that 7 is really out there, and I don't think they made mention of the type of house it was. It could have been a nice place with 2 classy cars in the driveway. but it did say he was Disabled with a Walker, maybe they just thought it would be a easy mark, I guess you could say they were DEAD wrong. and good for him for taking out 7 all in one sitting.

My wife prefers penetration AND expansion. I just tell her she'll have to make do.

You just have to be aware of what is beyond your target and decide when to shoot if you have the luxury of making a move when you chose to do so. Otherwise I figure if someone is threatening or taking other's lives, a round or two over penetrating is the least of your worries. Even if it does hit someone else I can't imagine it's very likely to be fatal for them.

Brayden Kenney exactly, like Jesse if someone move while you’re trying to lay down a good shot placement and you hit their 🖐 on accident. any bullet you carry will go through and destroy what’s behind it. know your 4 rules Most of the times it’s not gonna matter if lives are in danger

Use mag safe

Jesse they make things like glazer safety slugs that come apart when they hit a human body they won't go through you're that worried about it or they won't go through the walls and hit your other family members if you're protecting your home at night or something!

Oathkeeper🔥🔥👍

Yup. I have critical duty for my full sized 5.25" and critical defense for my 4" compact.

Critical duty is also in case you need to be shooting through a windshield/wall/etc. This is not a round you want to be carrying around as a normal defense around, you WILL penetrate a body.

$19 ??? Wow times have changed. I just paid double that..

Its a fucking 9mm dude.. theres not a gun made in 9mm thats has anything close to "recoil"

Lol, not as little as a 38 special though, the polymer frame makes it snappy.

In 2020 you use whatever you can get

how do you like it? Does it feed well? Have you had any failures?

+Juggalo10p I've had no problems with it in my Shield or Glock 43. I can't tell a difference in shooting it or any other off the shelf range ammo, which IMO is a good thing. Shoot a defensive round that feels like what you practice with.

EvilSSP hell yeah thats good info to have man I appreciate it

+Levi Thompson Me Too... I use the Hornady Duty In My G-19

Will this work for the S&W m&p shield ez 9mm

That's what she said

@@GodGunsGills Classic!😂

@@subzrodagr8689 He beat me to it ☹

@@GodGunsGills Good God, like nobody has ever heard that one.

@@mmabagain definitely know it's old, but was a good time to use it. I guess it's still good enough that you acknowledged it and commented

Not really had it expand enough on armadillo from p320 x compact

Here's a direct comparison between the two: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8PBPjYu_5ow.html

That's a good point. I use Critical Defense in my little Ruger LC9, and Critical Duty in my SIG, which has a longer barrel. I'll have to chrono the Critical Defense in both weapons to see how much difference there is, though. The Critical Defense, I'm told, has a faster-burning powder so that most of it burns while the bullet is still in short barrels, so a longer barrel may not make as much difference as shooting Critical Duty in different-length barrels would.

I think it's the opposite. This round out of a shorter barrel would be slower and theoretically expand less - penetrate more

Tracy Clark tests show differently

Not the tests Hornady did when developing the FTX round. Slower velocities result in more penetration because of lack of expansion of traditional hollow points. Critical Defense was specifically designed for shorter barrels because of this.

The block is to warm

It’s like asking which car is a good daily, a civic or a corolla. Either will do the job

I have a Smith and Wesson M&P 2.0 9mm with a four inch barrel. I carry this ammo.

Tom n what are you carrying if you don't mind me asking

Shep: I carry a S&W M&P 9c (12 round with spare mag.) in the winter and Wife and I carry S&W M&P Bodyguard other times. We both use Hornady 380 90 gr. FTX in the bodyguards and I use Hornady 9 MM 115 gr FTX in our other M&P's (9c with thumb safety and M&P 9 MM 2.0. I also have sleeves that allow 17 round mags to fit the c's) I choose S&W after years of research. I choose Hornady's FTX bullets after years of trying other rounds.

Tom n Same here

Link? Need a link to a report before I believe this.

@@abcdaw22 you're a liar

I like to see b238 but I carry better ammo than this and it half of these don't even expand in a Sig p238 that's why even the Second Amendment ammunition if you can find it is 1050 feet per second listed on the box so you're at least going to get the $950 standard ballistics of a 380 and I also like the Underwood 1300 ft per second with a 70 grain bullet out of the 380 small barrel 380 and Buffalo Bore makes one load that is not a grain bullet 1200 ft per second on the box so out of these little 380s you're getting about 1100 which is very very effective hollow point out of a small 380! Although I wouldn't shoot a lot of those Buffalo bore out of him I've shot a few to make sure they cycle properly and I'll probably never see the full box out of the gun I think that's just a little bit hot you can also tap a little of that weight out if you have a scale and make that money about 85 grains or something so it's not as hard on your gun but still highly effective!

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@@mikerobbins2076 What do you think !!!

@@carstenwilliams7733 your alive lol

@@mikerobbins2076 he be lying