Of the bullets that we recovered were essentially unchanged except for rifling Jugs, a 9mm hole through all nine layers of OSB and a 9mm hole in the dirt. Shot into gallon jugs of water, nine layers of 7/16' oriented strand board Unfortunately, we were not able to confirm the bulletĮxpansion/fragmentation claimed by DRT. We think that it is probably standard pressure ammunition loaded within the SAAMI maximum average pressure Loaded to +P velocity and pressure, nor does it seem to be a low recoil load. Reliable pistols!) Subjectively, the recoil and muzzle blast of the DRT 9mm load felt Reliability was 100% (Of course, we were shooting highly This is good performance for ammunition fired from unmodifiedĭRT ammunition appears to be a carefully manufactured The average group size for all three pistols ranĪbout 2-1/2'. Small as 1' with both the Beretta and Glock pistols, while the HK managedĪ 2-3/8' five shot group. On a solid bench rest, we were able to achieve three and five shot groups as Shooting at 25 yards from a Pistol Perch sitting We were able to verify that the supplied DRT 9x19mmĪmmunition was indeed quite accurate. Unfortunately, we did not have a new in the box 9mm pistol on hand to test with DRT ammo. These were our personal pistols and well broken-in. Guns and Shooting Online's Gunsmithing Editor, Rocky Hays, assisted me with the shooting chores. We selected Glock 19, Beretta 90-TWO and HK-USP pistols as representative nines in which to test fire some DRT ammo. DRT also offers rifleĪmmunition in selected calibers ranging from. Other handgun calibers available from DRT include. To a consumer buying DRT 9mm ammo over the counter, it is mystery ammunition. Nor is any sort of ballistic information provided, not even the claimed muzzle velocity. These cartridges were loaded in Sellier & Bellot (S&B) brass with 124 grain bullets, although the bullet weight was not printed anywhere on the attractive white and maroon DRT box in which the ammo is packaged. DRT supplied two 50 round boxes of their standard 9mm ammunition for this review. We were asked to review a DRT ammo product and settled on the 9mm Luger (9x19mm) caliber, since we had a number of 9mm pistols on hand. Hydrostatic force, resulting in complete disintegration of the bullet's core Reversion of the core to its powdered state) is supposed to be initiated by It isĪlso claimed that the DRT bullet will disintegrate if it hits a hard metal The resulting bullet is claimed to be highly accurate. It is inserted into a highly concentric copper jacketĪnd the final 9mm bullet is formed with a cup point.

(TheĪctual types of metal used are not specified.) This core is not sintered orīonded, only compressed. DRT bullets areįormed from a core of densely compressed, 99.9% pure, powdered metal. The unique aspect of DRT ammunition is its bullet. Illustration courtesy of Dynamic Research Technologies.ĭRT produces lead free, jacketed, rifle and pistolĪmmunition. Dynamic Research Technologies (DRT) Ammunition

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