Recent content by SnowmanP89

I've been tasked with euthanizing road-injured deer a lot over a three and a half decades LE career. It's been my experience that, if anything, a 180-pound deer is typically more tenacious of life...and harder to put down with a handgun...than the equivalent 180-pound man. So your point of view...

The defensive ammo I use is the Federal Cartridge 124 grain HST +P. It's the duty round for my former agency, so it's easy to acquire here locally. My old agency uses Winchester 124 grain fmj for practice rounds and I bought several cases of it from a local supplier. It's not marked as a +P, so...

Oh, gosh...I wouldn't take it as an affront at all. I'm grateful for any input. I'm a retired 38 year city cop. My agency issued and continues to issue 124 grain +P 9mm jhp ammo. I've got a bit of it still on hand in addition to a stash of 124 grain fmj practice ammo, which seems to be standard...

Thanks for the replies everyone. This P95 seems to shoot its tightest 25-yard groups with 115 and 124 grain 9mm loads. But the 147's group well enough for defensive use. Again...thanks.

Due to a major health issue in my family, I've had to sell off a number of my guns. So my EDC/home defense handgun now is a near mint-condition Ruger P95 that left the Ruger factory in October of 2006. It is a superb pistol. Are there any issues with using +P defensive ammo in an older...

Do you know a lot of 500 yard deer hunters...?

No doubt. Curious to know what caused his revolver to jam.

Same here for the 5-D on each of the four Marlins I have owned. In time, I learned to buy the larger .125" Williams aperture and use it instead of the factory .093" aperture that comes with the 5-D rear sight. The .125" aperture is the same size as the one in a mil-spec M-14. Faster on target...