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Originally Posted by Grumpy Old Man
My two cents. Black Talon in real world applications has a pretty high success rate with incapacitation if centre mass is hit.
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Underwood ballistics are far superior to Black Talon / Ranger T ballistics in 10mm which is what I typically carry. ~1000fps for the BT/RT vs 1250+fps in the Underwood loads. Black Talon was more about the big expansion, but at the cost of penetration. They found that it was more or less as effective a "manstopper" as other hollow points at the time. Modern hollow point designs beat the pants off it. But it is still a great bullet and I wouldn't feel under-equipped carrying them.
Also they don't make the BT/RT in 9x25 Dillon or 9x18 Makarov which I also like to carry from time to time.