Browning .40 S&W BXP 180 gr X-Point Gel Test and Review
We shoot Browning .40 S&W BXP 180 gr X-Point ammunition from a Glock 22 with a 4.5″ barrel into Clearballistics ballistic gel to measure velocity, penetration, expansion/fragmentation, and retained weight.
Bare gel:
Penetration: 13.2″, 13.8″
Retained weight: 177.0gr, 175.2gr
Max expansion: 0.741″, 0.721″
Min expansion: 0.540″, 0.504″
Guns in this video:
Glock 22
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Andrew is a combat veteran of OEF and has performed hundreds of ballistic tests for his YouTube channel, The Chopping Block (https://www.youtube.com/user/chopinbloc). He is an avid firearm collector and competitor and lives with his family in Arizona. If you have any questions, you may email him at choppingblocktests@gmail.com
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Nobody shoots the .40 anymore. It is too "snappy".
I bet TwSp's mother upgraded to a 9mm and just didn't tell him;-)
Is anyone else sick & tired of seeing gel block tests done with 2 or 3 rds, and then the presenter opines about the results as if they are definitive, sometimes even in regard to the entire brand or line of ammo they are testing? Does it not occur to people that to have relevant test results that they would want to test around 100 rds, from different guns, and at different ranges / angles, and compare those results to other products in that class with similar testing parameters? I realize that the 2-shot results are anecdotally interesting as far as being compared relatively to other 2-shot tests, but they should by no means disqualify a bullet’s potential performance based on such a limited test sample. It seems that the logistical issues with having to use so many gel blocks, or having to remelt them over and over is keeping amateur analysts from being thorough.