Green Ammo
I mentioned International Cartridge Corps. frangible green ammo here (short version was I liked it).
Others agree:
David Hardy: It was some astonishing stuff. Made by International Cartridge Corp., of Reynoldsville PA. It’s made of sintered copper and tin. The 9mms weighed in at 100 grains, the ,45s at 155. We shot steel plates at 3 yards and no splash back, no jacket fragments, a couple of times I felt something touch my leg, that was it. But it shot like the devil.
Kevin: I shot several hundred rounds of International Cartridge Corporation’s 155 grain .45ACP Green Elite TR non-toxic frangible flatpoint (loaded to 1,150fps) through my Para Tac-S this weekend without a single failure of any kind. I popped 8″ steel plates with it from 35 yards, and I did full magazine dumps on a steel plate from a distance of about three feet without anything splashing back on me but some dust. I didn’t have to worry about pieces of jacket coming back and sticking me (which has happened at distances considerably farther than three feet), nor did I need to worry about lead exposure.
Good stuff and comparably priced to ball ammo.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Hi Unc.. sounds like you guys had fun..
I’m not sure that “comparable” is the right word on price, though – I looked around and the “good” FMJ/TMJ in 45 ACP seems to be running $350-400 a thousand nowadays, while the frangible is $440 for once-fired brass, $570 for new.
But I can sure see the advantage under the conditions you had there.