Bl-ammo!
Here’s a bunch of miscellaneous pictures of ammunition. Whee! I just noticed that the bullets in this box have copper-colored bullets, but the other batch had brass-colored bullets. Interesting.
One of those personal defensive pistol articles said, “If you’re going to have a defensive handgun, get some quality hollowpoints and run through a box. If there are no problems with feeding or extraction, keep a mag of them handy.” What I’ve got here is Speer Gold Dot GDHP in 9mm.
It’s suggested that you don’t shoot more than one caliber at the time… too much possibility of accidently loading a .40 into a 9mm, or a 9mm into a .38, and so on, and ruining a perfectly good gun / hand / face. I didn’t find out about this rule of thumb until recently, but I had actually made the choice of choosing relatively extreme calibers that would be easy to tell apart prior. 9mm versus .45ACP is pretty obvious, as is 9mm to .22LR. This sort of rules out .40 from my gun collection at the moment, though. Next I need to choose a nice revolver caliber that stands out from all of these.
That Speer GDHP uses some kind of non-brass cartridge material. Is it steel? Aluminum? I don’t think it’s reloadable, but it reflects light very nicely. Looks like a nice wedding gift for someone, doesn’t it?
A nice bunch of Federal .45ACP. The guys at the gun store said, “If you plan on reloading someday, save some good brass. Federal makes great brass.”