{"id":1161,"date":"2023-06-28T17:33:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T17:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ammoforsale.com\/ammo-club\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2023-06-14T17:36:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T17:36:48","slug":"most-powerful-9mm-ammo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ammoforsale.com\/ammo-club\/most-powerful-9mm-ammo\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Powerful 9mm Ammo"},"content":{"rendered":"

If it\u2019s power and power alone that you seek from your ammunition, then you don\u2019t want 9mm loads in your carry weapon. Even the most powerful 9mm ammo isn’t going to pack as much punch as larger calibers can.<\/p>\n

Personally, whenever we go to the wrong side of the tracks we like to bring along our rifle chambered for 950 JDJ. It may feel a little awkward asking a mugger to please stand by while we set up a benchrest, but that half pound bullet makes it all worthwhile. With its 38,685 ft lbs muzzle energy, the 950 JDJ packs about as much punch as the space shuttle does when it\u2019s reentering the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

But if you\u2019d rather not do something so silly, 9mm is certainly a fine way to go. You can still enjoy a lot of power out of your conveniently sized pistol if you pick the right ammo. So uncork a bottle of 1945 Romanee-Conti, light up a Cohiba Behike, and open up a bag of salt and vinegar chips. We\u2019re going to tell you about some of the most powerful 9mm rounds on the market.<\/p>\n

Black Hills Ammunition 9mm +P 100 Grain HoneyBadger<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Black Hills has an impressive clientele. Not only do all branches of the U.S. Military purchase the South Dakotan company\u2019s fine products, but so do more than two dozen major firearm manufacturers including Beretta, Browning, Colt, Kimber, and Smith & Wesson.<\/p>\n

In 2015 Black Hills introduced a revolutionary bullet that they had cooked up with their partner Lehigh Defense: the HoneyBadger. It’s named after the tenacious little brute made famous by one of the internet\u2019s greatest viral videos ever. This 9mm +P round\u2019s 100 grain bullet delivers a 1,250 fps muzzle velocity for 347 ft lbs of muzzle energy. However, it is its terminal effect that makes it so impressive. Machined from solid copper, the HoneyBadger is at once stable in flight and incapable of core\/jacket separation for superior barrier penetration. As it drills through its target, the radial flutes machined into the HoneyBadger\u2019s nose effectively scoop soft tissue up and jet it outward. That helps produce a wound cavity the company claims is comparable to that of a 5.56 NATO rifle. That\u2019s about twice the diameter that a conventional expanding 0.355\u201d bullet could muster!<\/p>\n

The ammo runs run about 1.85 per round and we sell them at AmmoForSale.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Corbon 9mm +P 100 Grain PowR’Ball<\/a><\/h3>\n

Your assailant is going to feel like a lot of things have happened to him when he gets hit by a PowR’Ball. Winning the lottery won\u2019t be one of them.<\/p>\n

Corbon’s founder Peter Pi designed this 9mm +P round\u2019s 100 grain bullet in 2004. It’s essentially a jacketed hollow point with a polymer ball set into its nose cavity. The ball itself is a nice feature for a semi-automatic pistol. Its sphericity promotes much smoother feeding out of a magazine than a traditional JHP\u2019s blunt profile ever could. Its light weight also permits a dramatic 1,475 fps velocity out of a 4\u201d barrel for 483 ft lbs muzzle energy.<\/p>\n

When the PowR’Ball connects with a target, its polymer orb lets it penetrate several inches before it is entirely smashed down into its underlying V-shaped cavity. Such delayed expansion greatly increases the likelihood that the PowR’Ball will disperse the lion\u2019s share of its energy in the same zone that vital organs share. The PowR’Ball\u2019s ball is furthermore innately aerodynamic and protects the nose cavity from jamming with debris. That’s quite a potent combination of performance enhancing features for one little marble to provide!<\/p>\n

Buffalo Bore Penetrator 9mm +P+ 124 Grain FMJ FN<\/h3>\n

Buffalo Bore doesn\u2019t mess around. Founded by outdoorsman Tim Sundles in 1997, the Idaho-based manufacturer offers several cartridges that you\u2019d be overjoyed to find in your gun if you ever got close enough to a grizzly to smell what he had for lunch. This 9mm round is a +P+<\/a>, which means its loaded to so high a pressure that even SAAMI doesn\u2019t have a standard for it.<\/p>\n

This round\u2019s 124 grain bullet packs an earnest wallop: 1,298 fps out of a Glock 19\u2019s 4.02\u201d barrel. That delivers a muzzle energy of 464 ft lbs. The bullet itself is a straightforward full metal jacket flat nose. Its inability to expand gives it a great advantage at shoring up in the depths where a cantankerous bear\u2019s vital organs lie. If you\u2019re not planning a hike through Jellystone Park, you can still make great use of such rounds by loading them behind two or three JHPs in your magazine. If your assailant runs for cover, then it had better be darn good cover if it\u2019s to protect them from such a supersonic flurry of lead and copper.<\/p>\n

Inceptor 9mm +P 65 Grain ARX<\/h3>\n

A subsidiary of Quantum Plastics, Inceptor Ammunition is making the bullets of the future. They make their injection molded ARX of a proprietary polymer-copper matrix, which without lead is exceptionally light for caliber. Case in point: This 9mm +P cartridge\u2019s 65 grain bullet, which is less than half the weight of the heaviest commonly loaded 9mm projectiles. With so little bulk to it, such a bullet achieves a muzzle velocity of 1,695 fps. That’s a muzzle energy of 415 ft lbs.<\/p>\n

The ARX doesn\u2019t expand when it penetrates soft tissue. Rather, its uniquely designed grooves constrict, pressurize, and eject soft tissue outward according to a phenomenon known as the \u201cVenturi Effect.\u201d We may have been picking our nose during physics class (we\u2019re just kidding — of course we never took physics class), but even we can comprehend just how much damage a bullet does when it\u2019s laterally diverting the soft tissues it connects with at speeds up to double its own!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If it\u2019s power and power alone that you seek from your ammunition, then you don\u2019t want 9mm loads in your carry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ammo-insights"],"yoast_head":"\nMost Powerful 9mm Ammo | AmmoForSale.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We explore some of the most powerful 9mm ammo options available for American shooters today.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoforsale.com\/ammo-club\/most-powerful-9mm-ammo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" 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