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Mon-Fri: 10am-8pm
Sat-Sun: 9am*-7pm

*First hour of weekend range time (9am-10am) is reserved for members only. Retail store is open to everyone during these hours.

Frangible Ammunition

fran·gi·ble
adjective: Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken.

Frangible ammunition is a relatively recent development in bullets, presenting a departure from the standard projectiles in use for both range shooting and personal protection. Frangible bullets have been designed for a number of applications. Frangible bullets will break up into small, less harmful, pieces upon contact with anything harder than they are. Each of these small fragments quickly loses any energy and therefore pose very little danger to any secondary targets. This means that full-power (i.e. duty or self-defense loaded power factors) frangible bullets can be shot at a target all the way up to muzzle contact without any worries that the bullet or case will ricochet and potentially hurt either the shooter or others. Therefore frangible rounds are optimal for training realistic scenarios where the target is not safely 25 feet or more downrange but might pop up from behind a sofa at 5 feet. Another design aspect of frangible bullets are that they are no longer made from a lead projectile covered with a copper jacket but are composites of hybrid materials either pressed together at high pressure or glued together with adhesives.