Building Confidence

[DrHenley]

Originally Posted by BlackKnight

What do you mean by "HD plan?" Home Defense? If so, you don't need frangible. Get good hollow point ammo and stay with 55 grain.
We did some extensive testing on .223/5.56 ammo when we switched from the MP5's to M4's. Everyone was afraid of over penetration.
What we learned, and it's going to sound counter intuitive, is the 9mm was over penetrating, more than the 5.56.
The heavier 9mm was plowing through 2 X 4's, sheet rock and many obstacles, while the lighter .223 was more susceptible to deflection as well as slowing down and being stopped by solid obstacles.

Now me personally, I have handguns for home defense, but my go to is a pistol caliber carbine, a HK USC. It's loaded with Federal 230 grain Hydroshoks.

My 5.56 load is 55 grain soft points made for varmint hunting. No worries about overpenetration with those.
But that's for exterior home defense, not for indoor home defense. For indoors I have a 45 ACP Hi-Point carbine loaded with 230 grain XTPs.