Thread: Suppressed 9mm

Originally Posted by hotbarrels

My experience using a suppressed Marlin Camp before the great confiscation was that subsonic 9mm fails to expand the projectiles. Drilled pencil holes in goats and they kept running. Finding a good projectile and hand loading will be key to making it an effective hunting gun.

Personal experience of shooting goats with 158gn 38sp bullets from 20" Rossi at around 1200fps is that truncated cone or flat points do the job into engine room, neck or shoulder. The flat edge creates a much better wound channel than anything round. I have not gone subsonic tho,