200 Rounds of 185gr JHP .45 ACP Ammo by Hornady American Gunner

Hornady doesn’t do anything experimental or adventurous when they load their American Gunner line of 45 ACP ammunition. They just stick to what works – which is exactly what their ballisticians have studied for over seven decades.

The eXtreme Terminal Performance certainly works. It is a jacketed hollow point with a drawn gilding metal jacket. Unlike a plated jacket which is uniform in thickness by design, the XTP’s jacket is thick around its base and becomes thinner around the rim. Alongside its notched jacket, that helps the XTP to initiate terminal expansion following impact at lower velocities.

The XTP’s jacket leaves no exposed lead around its nose cavity. This serves two purposes: hardening the bullet’s tip to prevent a snag that could interrupt steady feeding, and assuring the XTP avoids becoming damaged by initial impact and losing its ability to increase up to 1.5x in diameter as the result.

The XTP’s jacket may be tapered, but it still exhibits the concentricity Hornady is so famous for. Alongside the bullet’s swaged lead core and premium brass, primer and propellant, that provides the great accuracy defensive shooting demands.