Best Ammo for Concealed Carry?

hey everyone my name is dylan and this is grant we're from gunspot and we're making this video for tolster.com grant is a very experienced shooter a firearm instructor swat and marine and today he's going to be telling us what kind of ammo we should or shouldn't be carrying in our everyday carry so why don't we start out with with your everyday carry what kind of ammo should we not be carrying so regularly i see probably the biggest mistake made when folks just pick up target ammo full metal jacket ammo and that's what they're carrying for self-defense and you know that ammo is not designed for defense it's just not it's designed for poking holes in the paper um not for poking holes into people and and it's not it's not loaded the same way and and that's just beside the hollow point or the projectile itself it's the amount of powder that's involved it's the tolerance that it's loaded with you know you're going to get a far less consistent performance out of target ammunition as far as accuracy as far as reliability than you will with a quality defensive handgun round okay and so now that we've covered what we shouldn't be carrying in our everyday carry you've brought some specific examples here of some of your favorites so why don't you walk us through some of these manufacturers in these rounds that you would recommend that people carry so what we have here is speargold dot federal hst and hornady critical duty and and i'm by no means saying these are the only good defensive rounds out there but i have a long history with spirit gold dot and hst especially um going back to law enforcement we had we were not carrying one of these three rounds back in the day and we had several shootings that just had really lackluster performance as far as eliminating threats and the situation really got out of control because of the ammo that we were carrying and we made a switch to spear gold dot it was at the time for a 40 smith and wesson it was the highest rated by the fbi's ballistic lab for performance and so when we switched to that immediately when officers were involved in shooting we saw better results so spear gold dots been around for a long time they're one of the original bullet companies that that came out with bonded bullet technology in handgun ammunition and it just performed through those barriers at a much more consistent rate hst it's another one of those more newer brands or or models of ammunition it's it is my daily carry choice uh the fbi has rated it really high and it's chosen by a lot of law enforcement uh agencies today um and i've shot it through intermediate barriers and ballistic gelatin and it's done really well in my personal um tests of it so those are those are my two top favorites i've heard good things about the critical duty that's why it's here but i have as a little bit less experience with it and so when you're shopping for defense ammunition one of the things you're going to recognize right off the bat is it's more expensive it's going to be way more expensive than that that full metal jacket practice ammunition but that's because a lot more care and work goes into these because these are the rounds that your life will depend on um so so why don't you kind of tell us how much can we expect to spend per box of defense ammunition well that's probably a question that's dependent on the time frame you know right now ammunition prices are off the charts availability is is pretty tough as well but suffice it to say you're going to definitely spend double what you spend on target ammunition and and really good defensive ammo should be looked at kind of like match grade rifle ammunition it's really loaded more towards that precision consistency and and you know how much is your life worth to you um you know if i paid a hundred dollars for a box of bullets that that is going to be traded out in a year my life is worth that hundred dollar investment okay this has been our video about what kind of ammunition for you to carry in your everyday carry we're gonna go ahead and put the links for these in the description and in the article below so thanks for watching and we'll see you next time you

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Published: Fri Dec 04 2020