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The original Federal Nyclad nylon coated hollowpoint ammo/bullets were designed to reduce airborne lead at indoor ranges. But they actually worked quite well in self defense shootings. I still have boxes of 9mm Nyclad ammo and 38 spl +p Nyclad ammo.

 

The original Teflon coatings applied to 1960s - 1980s era armor piercing handgun ammo were to lessen ferocious damage to bore rifling. As many of those loads were tungsten alloy, hard brass alloy, or hardened steel penetrators that would wear out barrel rifling.

The Teflon had nothing to do with penetration of soft body armor. The high velocity, specially shaped, & super hard bullets accomplished that on their own. The Teflon was there to save your handgun barrel from becoming an increasingly inaccurate smooth-bore.

Allegedly, Teflon coating offered a slightly lower incidence of AP bullets doing glancing ricochets off of angled auto body panels and auto glass, but that's a fairly dubious claim. If it reliably worked like that, most military & police ammo would employ such coatings. They don't.

 

As said right up above me^^^^^^

There's a myriad of coatings used for bullets, none of them are for increased penetration

Most all are used for reducing bore fouling and chamber pressure

Nylon
Teflon
Lubalox (Black Talon bullets)
Molybdenum disulfide (Moly)
HBN (Hexagonal Boron Nitride)
WS2 (Tungsten disulfide)

Are all coatings designed for the aforementioned. Won't help with penetration

I've used the Lubalox, Moly and HBN on rifles and they do work by reducing the fouling. I can shoot more before accuracy degrades increasing time between cleanings. I prefer the Lubalox and HBN over the Moly.

Lubalox comes on the Combined Technology bullets (Nosler/Winchester) sold for rifles


If you want better penetration, go to a heavier bullet

 

I can't believe there are people that still believe teflon coated bullets go through body armor. :xeye:

 

Why do you want to know? You planning on shooting some cops? A friend is curious.

 

You know cops aren't the only ones to wear body armor, right? Even some of the antifa/blm crowd has been sighted wearing it.

 

When I shot the falling plate matches back in the late 1990s a couple of cops were talking about the Mexican Banditos gang drilling out the hollow points a little more in 357 mag ammo and gluing in the tips of cut off hardened nails into the hollow point so when the bullet hit a cops vest the bullet would stop but the hardened tip would continue on through the vest and into the body.

I never tried making any myself and had sort of forgotten about it. But it sounds like it would work if you used a lightweight HP like a 110gr bullet and loaded to max power for high speed.

 

Buy a Tokarev.