500rds - 45 ACP New Black Hills 185gr. JHP Ammo

500rds - 45 ACP New Black Hills 185gr. JHP Ammo Details

This is 45 ACP New Black Hills 185gr. Jacketed Hollow Point Ammo. Black Hills Ammunition is highly respected all over the country. Black Hills supplies all five US military branches with ammunition. There are many Law Enforcement  Agencies using Black Hills nationwide. They only use the best components available. This factory new ammo is very accurate, dependable, 100% non-corrosive, boxer primed and reloadable. Black Hills. This ammo is brass cased, boxer primed, non-magnetic and non-corrosive, comes packed in 20rd. boxes, 500rds to a case. Muzzle Velocity: 1000 FPS.

Gel test Results

As you hunt for the best self-defense 45 ACP (Auto) ammo, we thought you might enjoy seeing the results of some testing we recently conducted with calibrated Clear Ballistics gelatin.

We shot five of these Black Hills Ammunition rounds through a four-layer cloth barrier using a Ruger SR45. The results are detailed in the video you see above as well as the photographs. Through the charts, you should get a great idea how this Black Hills Ammunition ammo stacked up relative to other 45 ACP (Auto) ammo products available to American shooters.

To get a better sense of our tests, be sure to check out all the protocols we followed when conducting our tests to determine the best self-defense ammo.

Unfired versus Fired Round Comparison

Image detailing before and after firing 500rds - 45 ACP New Black Hills 185gr. JHP Ammo Image detailing before and after firing 500rds - 45 ACP New Black Hills 185gr. JHP Ammo

How do the results for this Black Hills Ammunition 45 ACP (Auto) compare to other Subsonic 45 ACP Ammo?

500rds - 45 ACP New Black Hills 185gr. JHP Ammo Gel Test Results

  Median
Bullet Depth (in.) 17.7 18.8 21.3 22.4 22.7
Expanded Diameter (in.) 0.46 0.51 0.51 0.52 0.52
Bullet Weight after shot (gr.) 180.9 182.6 183.1 184 185.2
Bullet Velocity (fps) 967 977 995 1014 1022

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