'Hard ball' is an informal term used by target shooters, primarily shooters of the Model 1911 or its variations, to distinguish military type FMJ bullets from wad cutter, lead, soft point, or hollow point commercial loads. Mark o'meara witb family. Interesting article and the Ball ammo was really deadly to the Bowling Pins even with their hard covers. Curiosity got better of me and I dismantled a retired bowling pin. The lead and hollow points stuck in outer skin but the ball ammo either went clean through or burried deep in pin very close to exiting. Although, some manufacturers have special lines of soft point ammo that really shine – including Power Point and Core-Lockt bullets. This is a pretty versatile bullet type, and it fares well in all applications, from plinking to hunting. A lot will depend on the weapon being used as well as why you’re using this type of bullet in the first. Driver hp laserjet 1000 series windows 10 64 bits. Film gratis online subtitle indonesia.
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'Ball' ammo is a military term. It comes from the old days when ammo was powder and ball.
From the standpoint of the military, 'ball' ammo is general use ammo with no other function. Not tracer, not incendiary, not dummy, not special match, not inertial guided. Just a plain old bullet.
Currently, most military ball ammo is full metal jacket (FMJ) construction. That is, the nose and main body are completely covered in jacketing material (guilding metal, usually). The base in normally open due to manufacturing techniques. However, the total metal jacket (TMJ) bullets are, in function, the same as FMJ.
This was not always so. The 1873 Colt Single Action Army revolver was issued with lead bullets. That was 'ball' ammo. So was the 405 grain lead bullet in the .45-70 trapdoor rifle. Not jacketed but 'ball'. It didn't do anything else other than make a hole.
The .38 Special ammo in police use was typically the 158 grain (850 f/s) lead round nose (dis)Service round. It is sometimes called 'ball', from the time between 1900 and the end of WWII it was used as a 'secondary' military loading. Mostly for security people and contract guards. The 'official' .38 Special loading in the US military as the 130 grain (750 f/s) FMJ 'ball' round. (Sometimes called the 'halt-or-I'll-dent-your-paint' round.) But this round only dates from the early to middle '50s when it was developed to not destroy the USAF 'Aircrewman' revolver; an all aluminum (steel liners in chamber and barrel, I understand) model 10 revolver.
The revolver was never issued generally or adopted formally, it just didn't hold up. But in typical military logic, the round stayed.
However, US police officers used the .38 Special 158 RNL as a 'normal' load. So it's usually called the Service load. Or Disservice load, due to it's somewhat lackluster performance.
Enough history for one day?
From the standpoint of the military, 'ball' ammo is general use ammo with no other function. Not tracer, not incendiary, not dummy, not special match, not inertial guided. Just a plain old bullet.
Currently, most military ball ammo is full metal jacket (FMJ) construction. That is, the nose and main body are completely covered in jacketing material (guilding metal, usually). The base in normally open due to manufacturing techniques. However, the total metal jacket (TMJ) bullets are, in function, the same as FMJ.
This was not always so. The 1873 Colt Single Action Army revolver was issued with lead bullets. That was 'ball' ammo. So was the 405 grain lead bullet in the .45-70 trapdoor rifle. Not jacketed but 'ball'. It didn't do anything else other than make a hole.
The .38 Special ammo in police use was typically the 158 grain (850 f/s) lead round nose (dis)Service round. It is sometimes called 'ball', from the time between 1900 and the end of WWII it was used as a 'secondary' military loading. Mostly for security people and contract guards. The 'official' .38 Special loading in the US military as the 130 grain (750 f/s) FMJ 'ball' round. (Sometimes called the 'halt-or-I'll-dent-your-paint' round.) But this round only dates from the early to middle '50s when it was developed to not destroy the USAF 'Aircrewman' revolver; an all aluminum (steel liners in chamber and barrel, I understand) model 10 revolver.
The revolver was never issued generally or adopted formally, it just didn't hold up. But in typical military logic, the round stayed.
However, US police officers used the .38 Special 158 RNL as a 'normal' load. So it's usually called the Service load. Or Disservice load, due to it's somewhat lackluster performance.
Enough history for one day?