Glock 7.92 VBR

Canuck223 said:
Yay, yet more warm and fuzzy engineering re-inventing the wheel.

Hollowpoints work. Get over it.
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Designers are always looking for a way to reduce recoil, increase capacity and improve terminal performance. Think of the popular defensive rounds developed in the last 20 years...all of them were designed with this goal in mind...the 45 GAP and 40 S&W are perfect examples. I think innovation is a good thing....
 
Clobbersauras said:
Designers are always looking for a way to reduce recoil, increase capacity and improve terminal performance. Think of the popular defensive rounds developed in the last 20 years...all of them were designed with this goal in mind...the 45 GAP and 40 S&W are perfect examples. I think innovation is a good thing....
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Look at the video and see if you notice what I caught. This is designed to produce hollow point results without hollow points.

I'm all for innovation, but it seems to me that there's been a whole lot of engineering wasted here to design around a political problem.
 
Canuck223 said:
Look at the video and see if you notice what I caught. This is designed to produce hollow point results without hollow points.

I'm all for innovation, but it seems to me that there's been a whole lot of engineering wasted here to design around a political problem.
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Yeah it's hard to improve on hollow points...my only point is that recoil reduction, mag capacity, and stopping power are real issues for LE departments. The less recoil they can get with the best combination of stopping power and capacity and they will go for it - hence the popular use of the 40S&W. If they can field a sidearm that has 30% less recoil than a 9mm with better ammo capacity, and the same stopping power as a 40S&W I think they would do it in a heartbeat. I don't think I would go out and sell my G19 any time soon, but LE will look at this seriously....for good or bad. So would many civies.
 
...am I crazy, or looking closely at the video, was that a Glock-17 they were firing those rounds out of?? You can see the markings on the slide. Is it just a rebarrel to use these rounds?? Same G17 mags, I wonder...?
 
Cortexburn said:
how many hollowpoint rounds can you fit into a magazine...that one holds 21....

Not that it matters here where there is a phobia on high capacity magazines.....
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21 rounds is with extended magazines. You can get the same number of 9mm hollow point bullets into a Glock 17 (again with the extended mag)
 
Why is there any mention at all of how wonderful it is to fill the magazine with 21 rounds when they're using extended magazines?????

This just doesn't make sense. A Glock 17 with standard law enforcement magazine already fits 17 rounds. Model 22 standard law enforcement magazines fits 15 rounds.

Furthermore, ballistics on hollow-point ammunition already gives you an effective defensive round.
 
These projectiles looke like machined brass/bronze/some type of alloy. I bet they're going to ba a bit@h for cost - what, maybe $2-3 per round or thereabouts.

My prediction is "lead balloon". An unteresting attempt at reinventing the wheel, unfortunately this wheel is square. Will it work? Sure probably. Will it be affordable? Probably not...


blake
 
Another niche for the rich to have bragging rights about. Where's my lotto ticket....:D

mudgunner49 said:
These projectiles looke like machined brass/bronze/some type of alloy. I bet they're going to ba a bit@h for cost - what, maybe $2-3 per round or thereabouts.

My prediction is "lead balloon". An unteresting attempt at reinventing the wheel, unfortunately this wheel is square. Will it work? Sure probably. Will it be affordable? Probably not...


blake
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