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Caliber agnostic, what brand / weight do you like for defensive ammo?

I am running Gold Dot 230 grain in .45, HST 180 or 165 grain in .40, HST 124, 124+p or a smattering of 147 grain HST in 9mm.

I ask because Federal seems to be knocking it of the Park with the HST offerings across the board and the hydrashock deep seems to be doing well too.

I still run a bit of Gold Dot but I really seem to be moving to HST across the board.

So what say you, what do you like these days. Still running 9BPLE these days???

In .38/.357 I still lean towards Gold Dot or Golden Sabre.


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For my 45's I use 230 grain Remington Golden Saber and 230 grain Federal Hydrashoks.

For my 9mm I use 115 grain Hornady Critical Defense hollow points.

I don't think you could do bad as long as you had any of the peemuim hollow points.
 
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9BPLE works very nicely in my Ruger PC Carbine.
Any HST caliber or weight works fine in my handguns.


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My main carry guns are 9mm.

Little guns (P365, Kahr MK9) I use Hornady 115gr XTP's.

Big guns (Glock 19's, P320's, etc..) I use Federal 9BPLE



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Federal HST 147 standard pressure for 9mm


I've already tested a couple hundred rounds of 147 grain Federal HST standard pressure through the Glocks, and keep a small supply of them, but since they are very hard to come by here in CA now that online sales are restricted, so I am looking into a more readily available round.
Currently using Winchester PDX1 147 grain in the Glock 26, which is my most carried gun. The G19 still loaded with the HSTs.

I have an LCP that is also loaded with Federal HST 99grain, but planning on using Hornady XTP when I run out of what's left of HSTs and Critical Defense 380 auto.
 
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Gold Dot 124 +P 9mm, Gold Dot 155 in .40, 230 +P HST in .45.
 
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Gold Dot 124grn 9mm.

If I could ever find a decent price on HST at the same time I have the money to spare, I'd probably swap to HST, though.



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9BPLE 115gr +P+ in my P series 9mm
 
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Gold Dot 124 gn 9X19, and Sig v-crown .357 Sig 125 gn.
 
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Gold Dot short barrel 9mm for the Kahr K9, HST 9mm for the 229 and Barnes XTP 45 for the 220.


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124 gr Gold Dot or 135 gr Critical Duty.


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Federal HST.

124 +P 9mm and 230 .45.
 
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230 grain Winchester Ranger in my 45s. 147 grain Ranger RA9b in my 9mms. Gold Dot 158 grain 357 in my few remaining revolvers. But I dont carry them anymore. Regards 18DAI


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124gr GD or HST, whichever I can find cheaper.

I used Win 127gr Ranger for 10 years before that, just got to be too expensive and hard to find at times.


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I ran rangers for a good long while from 2006 till last year. I have switched to gold dots and hsts. Prior to 2006 i preferred hydra shoks.
 
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Primarily HSTs, but I do have some Speer GDHPs mostly for the revolvers in 38/357Mag. There is something about the Speer 158gr in 357 and the 135gr loads in 38SPL that just work. Same for HSTs in 9MM.

I do have some Ranger-Ts for 45s, but not using 45s for carry / defense anymore, I don’t see those boxes changing anytime soon.
 
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Magazines get HST, cylinders get Gold Dots.
 
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147 grain G2s. The ballistic performance data that I have access to from actual shootings is pretty awesome.




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HSTs. 124 gr +P for G19 and 124 gr Standard pressure for G43. I've been testing the 150 gr Short barrel HST in my G43. They feed and function perfectly and I do appreciated the somewhat reduced recoil, but the jury is still out on terminal performance.



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Gold Dots primary. I think I have some HST in some backup mags. Totally unscientific, but I had HST presumably fail to expand with 155gr .40 in backyard testing. Went through clothing and 6 water jugs and kept going. Couldn't find the bullet, so I only assume it didn't open. Gold Dot was the only one that performed in that test, so I use them.


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