New 9mm Firefly tracer ammunition (left) and ARX self-defense ammunition (right)
Remember PolyCase Ammunition? They’re the folks that developed disposable polymer cases for a variety of rifle and pistol cartridges. When the great ammunition crunch of 2013 hit, PolyCase, like other ammunition manufacturers, had trouble obtaining the components to load cartridges in the polymer cases. Turning frustration into opportunity, the PolyCase team set about inventing their own projectiles. Like their previous work with breakthrough innovation, they’ve figure out how to make projectiles using injection molding techniques. Using a blend of 10% polymer and 90% copper, they create practice, self-defense and tracer projectiles by molding them from liquid goo. According to the company, accuracy is improved as the molding process avoids traditional challenges of weight variation and concentricity anomalies.
The groundbreaking concept behind this it that PolyCase can make the projectiles into virtually any shape they want as the injection molding process is not limited by traditional stamping techniques. The Inceptor ARX self-defense projectile resembles a drill bit and is designed to provide directional and rotational energy transfer to the target. The light weight, lead-free projectiles still penetrate to FBI standards as they are not designed to expand in the traditional sense.
For more information, visit PolyCase Ammunition.
Who’d’a thunk? Cooool!
Tried the ARX in my Glock 42 and they FTE every time. Concept is great, reality is if the round in the chamber didn’t stop them you might be done.
Thanks for the report! We will be testing these in a variety of different guns soon and will share what we find as well.
I had the same issue as John. Every round in my Glock 42 FTE in some form or another. They fired fine through my LCP though.