9MM Ammo?

Any one of those is GTG so whichever one is in stock.

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Speer Gold Dot G2 9mm Luger Ammo 147 Grain Jacketed Hollow Point

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Ammo chosen by USSOCOM.

I think hollow handgun ammo isn't allowed per Hague/Geneva? I could be wrong.

Anywho... me, personally, I don't care for +P stuff and I generally stick with the lightest grain.

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3) Speer Gold Dot LE Duty 9mm Luger Ammo 124 Grain +P Jacketed Hollow Point

4) Federal Law Enforcement 9mm Luger Ammo 124 Grain +P HST Jacketed Hollow Point

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Gonna wear out that aluminum frame on that Taurus....

So stay away from the +P loads.

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Ammo chosen by USSOCOM

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147 Grain

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So slow you can see them in flight if the
Sun is behind you.

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So stay away from the +P loads.

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Read your owner's manual. It will tell you whether or not your pistol will handle +P or +P+ loads.

If it can handle +P loads, you don't have to TRAIN with +P loads and your pistol will be perfectly fine loaded with them for real emergencies while you use FMJ rounds for training. It's long-term fire using the hotter rounds that wears pistols out faster than normal power rounds, not merely putting a few rounds of +P ammo through the pistol from time to time.

I keep my pistols loaded with 124gr +P JHP loads, but I practice with whatever FMJ rounds are cheapest. I fire maybe a magazine of the big boy rounds every month or so just to remain familiar with how they feel (because every round does feel different) and make sure my pistols/magazines don't have some issue brewing with them that may make them work fine with the FMJ rounds, but be flaky or fail with the +P JHP rounds. I'd like to discover that at the range instead of at a critical time.

That said, any round on your list should be good to go: Speer's Gold Dots and Federal's HSTs are generally regarded as the gold standards in self-defense and police duty rounds. Personally, I'd tend to favor the lighter rounds over the 147gr. Hollowpoints rely on velocity for proper expansion, so lighter bullets are easier to make move faster and get over their threshold velocity to really mushroom well. The 147gr bullets are just going to be slower by a couple hundred feet per second than the 124gr bullets; there's a limit to how much powder you can put in a cartridge and stay within its specs and if you're limited in how much push you have available, light stuff moves faster for a given amount of push. However, lighter rounds also have a harder time retaining energy going through clothing and are slowed more easily than heavier rounds would be. So, somewhere like Chicago in February, I'd probably favor the 147gr loads because they penetrate thick clothing better.

In South Louisiana, though, where we live about three feet from the sun, 124gr +P year round for me.

I think he referencing the SOCOM “endorsement”. To my knowledge only aircrew in the military can carry hp. I could be wrong though.

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1) Speer Gold Dot LE Duty 9mm Luger Ammo 124 Grain Jacketed Hollow Point

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I just got 2 boxes of these. Reloads for BS range shooting. Federal 150gr Syntech for comp.

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1) Speer Gold Dot LE Duty 9mm Luger Ammo 124 Grain Jacketed Hollow Point

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This should meet all your needs.

Make sure you run at least a mag or two through each pistol to make sure it cycles and doesn't have any malfunctions.