Frangible 9mm Buletsl
 

Although frangible (soft) ammunition has been out since the early 60's, I believe first appearing in the 7.62 mm Nato for the military I wasn't aware it was available in handgun ammunition until I received this email, this has to be one of the wickedest looking rounds I have ever seen.

Sorry, I am incorrect, frangible ammunition was in use at least into the mid 40's and was produced in cal. 30-06. Sorry

Lon

http://gunssavelives.net/gear/video-...torm-g2r-rip/#

Really??? I've been out of the military for some time, but when I was in, the Geneva Convention forbid frangible ammunition... :confused:

Times change... :(

I did not think that that round was considered a frangible round in the standard way. Most/all frangible rounds use a bullet made with a sintered/powdered copper that basically evaporates when it strikes a hard object. These rounds "divide and conquer" when they strike an object. I will be really amazed if this bullet is allowed to be sold in the USA due to the way it performs. Each bullet is produced on a CNC machine out of solid copper!! Talk about expensive bullets!!......but then they are not designed for target shooting.

I left the military in Oct. 1963 and brought back a few rounds of the frangible 7.62mm Nato, I believe I still have some and if I can located them, just out of curiosity I will check the head stamp and color of the tip and post the info here. If I'm not mistaken the color of the tip is black. :confused:

Lon

I see the development of these types of bullets as a natural and logical consequence of the US Environmental Protection Agency's 'war on lead'.

Yea, the world-wide anti-Pb hysteria.

Upon further checking I found that I was wrong in that the black tip is for armour piercing, and not for the frangible ammunition, the frangible ammunition I have has the green and white tip, and is cal. 30-06, which while no expert in any sense of the word was I aware that it was produced in 30-06.

Some of the information in my first statement is incorrect, the headstamp on my frangible ammo is dated 1945, it was produced by
the St. Louis Ordinance plant in St. louis and it is for cal. .30-06. Sorry for the misinformation.

Lon

loadings will include: Armor-piercing (AP), AP-Incendiary, Ball, Blank, Dummy, Gallery, High Pressure Test, Incendiary, and Tracer. Many of these will be identified by colored bullet tips. The following is a list of commonly found colored bullet tips on .30-06.
Black: AP
Black/Silver: AP Plate Test
Blue: Incendiary (also tracer from Argentina)
Green: AP from UK, Tracer from Argentina
Green/White: Frangible
Green/Tan: Frangible
Orange: Tracer
Red: Tracer (also some Incendiary from UK, and AP from Argentina)
Silver: Armor-piercing Incendiary
White: Tracer, unfinished Frangible,
Yellow: Observation and Proof rounds (AP from Belgium)