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Glaser Safety slugs;

With the caveat that personal experiences and the wide variety of variables in lethal confrontations certainly does not guarantee that the results will always be the same, I have never encounted a successful use of a Glaser safety slug.

But then I have only run into a handful of cases where they were used and, probably by coincidence, none of the hits were what I would call good.

The one personal experience I had with one was on a woodchuck. I had some rounds given to me by the inventor of the design - they were probably not the same as the current factory made stuff as I am pretty sure he cranked them out on a handloading setup. Mine were .45s and they happened to chronograph nearly 1600 fps - much hotter than today's factory stuff. Yet that one did not expand on the woodchuck at all, it just went through. Distance was very close - I ambushed the critter when he came out of his hole.

Interestingly enough, they penetrated soft body armor but the newer ones will not.

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