A box of PMC Bronze .380 is $66 at LGS. No problem with availability at that price.
@gat a year ago I could have ordered a case of Fiocchi .380 JHP for an average of well under $20 per box of 50. Everything has changed in that realm in the past year.
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@leyonhjelm @gat Does 380 get going fast enough to expand hollow poits?

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That's the theory, but it's only a 90 or 95 grain hollow point. A test series someone did showed that it will, and I don't have somewhere to replicate it for myself yet

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@valleyforge In a word, yes. But caveats exist. The expansion of .380 requires a bespoke projectile and the resulting wound channel is smaller than the one left by a 9mm bullet. This also assumes that the maker of the bullet aims for the same standard 12" penetration in the standard gel.

Check the details in the famous Lucky Gunner post that was continuously updated since 2015: https://www.luckygunner.com/labs/self-defense-ammo-ballistic-tests/

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