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Presto-Z: To answer your question about AP pistol bullets in Florida: It's a multi-part answer. For one thing, Florida does have a state law which restricts some aspects of pistol caliber AP bullets, and that is statute 790.31 in the general code. It basically says that any solid core, or solid monolithic bullet made of steel or equivalent hardness and a truncated cone is banned to manufacture, sell, offer for sale, or deliver, and is also banned to have loaded in a handgun with intent to use. That's a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo, but what it boils down to in Florida is this: You can't

Sounds like you were carrying some South African loads there. The one with the blue nose cap was called a Sentry, aka Eliminator by NGA. It was an aluminum alloy slug with a funny looking tip that's supposed to be a high velocity safety bullet which would impart maximum energy into the target without over-penetrating or hitting anything behind the target. It was designed by a South African named Andre van Dyk, and he made some very cool pistol loads for PMP before leaving that company and starting New Generations Ammuntiion (NGA) around 1993. When he was at PMP he designed a pistol bullet

I'm not sure which one you mean? What color is it, and what is it next to? I don't think I have any cartridges shaped like that, but it might be an illusion of two cartridges together, or one cartridge which might have a duplicate projectile pulled and sitting just above it?

I'll respond to some of you personally so as not appear like a yard-sale free-for-all in this thread where sales probably don't belong. Traditionally, the books have been about $70 which isn't much over my cost, and remember it has 60 full color pages, and is hardcover. 690gr - I could do a book on rifle & shotgun specialty loads, but it would not be nearly as thorough as my book on pistol AP ammo. This is because although I do have a decent collection of rifle AP ammo, and specialty shotgun loads, it is very incomplete as compared to my pistol AP collection. I am actually working o

The book has already had it's first edition of sorts published. I printed about 40 hardcovers using Staples "ambassador bind" service, and around 40 soft covers. I'm going to print another 20 this month, and then eventually get the whole thing uploaded to lulu.com for online on-demand publishing which can be linked through Amazon, and which will make the whole thing allot easier. Here are some images of the book:

Yeah, it gets annoying to try and decode sometimes, because the laws are worded so poorly. One thing the laws often do is use the general term "armor piercing ammunition", and unless you read the definitions section which can sometimes be separate from the law itself, you wouldn't know. I think 308saiga knew it was handgun only, just not that it was only plastic-coated (Teflon). Who knows, the laws are essentially a waste of time, I just wrote a book and spent 30 pages breaking it all down for the state law section alone. The other 230 pages are about the actual ammo.

308saiga - You have to be careful reading those state laws. That law that you show, IC-35-47-5-11 is the Indiana law, and it defines the cartridges it is talking about as only those coated with "plastic" (Teflon). This basically only applies to KTW loads, which is what so many of these pointless state laws were about in the early 90's when attention-hungry anti-gun liberals were sponsoring the bills. Many of the state laws seem to indicate that all is banned, or that no purchasing is legal etc, etc... but when you sift through the details, and check the definitions part of the laws you ofte

Chevyman097 - I have a list made up of what all the cartridges are for the middle photo of multi-caliber cartridges located here: http://ammo.ar15.com/project/Handgun_Ammo_FAQnRules/ExoticHandgunAmmo.htm Apart from that, it might take along while to describe every one in detail, I could tell you more about a specific one, or any of the AP cartridges will have full info listed in my reference book "Pistol Caliber Penetrators". 308saiga - There are a handful of states which have restrictions regarding pistol-caliber Armor piercing ammo, but not many states have laws restricting any other ki

I'm new to this forum (posted a few times last year), and I've recently joined a bunch of forums in my effort to reach out to anyone who is interested in what I am interested in: special-purpose gadgety pistol ammo. The weird stuff with odd tips; exploders, multiball, darts, cutters, slicer, dicers, expanders, plastics & teflon. I have an extensive history in collecting & researching and a large collection. I'm with the International Ammunition Association (IAA), and I have written a book on the topic of pistol-caliber armor piercing ammo which is my main point of collecting. Below are

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I received my SGM forearm today and any looseness of the accessory rails from the early models has definitely been fixed. They almost over-compensated I would say, as the one quick-connect light/laser holder I have was a very tight fit, but went on ok ultimately. So the rails are good, the look is good, and the material is very tough and rigid. The toughness is nice, but it does make it sort of hard to work into place since it has no give like the typical forearms. Once you're finally on it fits tight and secure. The length does look a little weird at first, but it's better than nothing.

It looks like Gilbert's now has them back in stock with the rail problem fixed and they are ready to go. They are touting these things pretty heavily as it is now the top item mentioned on their homepage. They lost my original online order somehow, but he took it right over the phone today, so if you online-ordered and don't have it yet, give them a call. He indicated that they had sent out the remainder of the back orders as of late last week supposedly.

Caliberclark - All I know is that when I called Gilbert's to ask why I hadn't received it yet, he said there was going to be some redesign, and some were shipped back due to the fact that the rails were not properly sized to accept the quick-connect style spring loaded light/laser holders. I guess some were shipped out, but there were enough complaints about the size problem that they did sort of a recall on the ones still not shipped, thus our delay. He said that attachments such as most vertical grips which have the screw-on tightening worked fine, but that the quick-connects did not. I a

I had ordered one of these over a month ago, and still not received one. I called Gilbert's and a guy told me that they had plenty to ship, but that they stopped sending them out because they were getting complaints that the quick-connect style rail mount light & laser holders would not latch on tight to the rails on this forearm, and they suspected the rails were not up to spec. If you use a screw-tightening type attachment like a vertical fore-grip then it works fine, but not the spring-loaded quick-connect accessory mounts. The guy at Gilberts said they had sent a bunch back, or were

I am one of these newbs who only signed on to this forum to question the oddity of MDarms lack of updates, and I certainly am not a plant. My only motivation was the fact that I can't get any communication from MDarms (hardly ever have been able to anyway except speedy payment processing...) and after sitting quietly for over a year, and understanding how things take time to develop, etc, etc,... I finally lost patience when after having promised weekly updates, Mike suddenly falls off the map and is unreachable. In light of the fact that an update (even if it is bad news) only takes 2 or 3