SHOT Show: Jacketed Hollow-Point Rounds From Aguila Ammunition

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Loaded to normal velocities and topped with a highly engineered bullet, Aguila Ammunition develops a highly-shootable defensive round that doesn’t lack in terminal performance.

Over the years, Aguila Ammunition has built its reputation as a range ammo manufacturer. It’s done a pretty good job in this quarter too, churning out some of the most consistent full-metal jacket options around – be it pistol, rifle or rimfire. But the scrappy ammo-smith switched gears in a big way at the 2019 SHOT Show in Las Vegas. Now they’re gunning for the self-defense market and isn’t holding back jumping into this niche.


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In all, Aguila has four jacketed hollow-point options to choose from in some of the most popular defensive calibers, including .380 ACP, 9mm, .40 S&W and .45 ACP. And they’ve embraced an interesting concept in what they’ve scratched together for your concealed carry or home-defense gun. Instead of gassing up the rounds so they’re white-hot, Aguila pieces together much more moderate rounds that, theoretically, should prove easier to shoot. What does this mean for you? Potentially a more accurate option shot to shot that doesn’t compromise on terminal ballistics.

How Aguilar pulls off this somewhat impossible feat is through a highly-engineered bullet, one designed for maximum expansion at normal velocities. A large hollow point is one part of the equation, skiving – perforations in the jacket that ensure it opens upon impact – is the other. Together, the elements make for a deadly round for what is perhaps the most important gun in your possession. And in Aguilar Ammunition’s load, it also guarantees you’ll have a something you can place on target every time.

For more information on Aguila Ammunition’s 5mm RRM, please visit www.aguilaammo.com.


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Elwood Shelton is the Digital Editor for Gun Digest. He lives in Colorado and has provided coverage on a vast spectrum of topics for GD for more than a decade. Before that, he was an award-winning sports and outdoors reporter for a number of newspapers across the Rocky Mountains. His experience has consisted of covering the spread of chronic wasting disease into the Western Slope of Colorado to the state’s ranching for wildlife programs. His passion for shooting began at a young age, fostered on pheasant hunts with his father. Since then, he has become an accomplished handloader, long-range shooter and avid hunter—particularly mule deer and any low-down, dirty varmint that comes into his crosshairs. He is a regular contributor to Gun Digest Magazine and has contributed to various books on guns and shooting, most recently Lever-Actions: A Tribute to the All-American Rifle.

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