G9 Defense 9mm 80gr External Hollow Point (EHP)
Product Overview
Unmatched Performance and Reliability The G9 Defense 9mm 80gr External Hollow Point (EHP) sets a new standard in personal defense ammunition. Utilizing advanced Shape Charge Technology, this round provides superior effectiveness, reliability, and barrier performance compared to other defensive handgun munitions on the market. The EHP is deployed by law enforcement, military professionals, and responsible citizens for its exceptional reliability and effectiveness in real-world scenarios.
Key Features:
- Advanced Fluid Transfer Technology: The EHP rounds feature fluted channels that funnel a high-speed jet upon contact with fluid and other media present in tissue. The mechanism, known as the Venturi effect, amplifies tissue damage by directing the jet into adjacent tissues, causing extensive tearing and a wound channel greater than 4x that of traditional jacketed hollow points.
- Consistent Penetration: Optimized to penetrate 18 inches in ballistic gel, ensuring sufficient, controlled penetration with minimal risk of over-penetration that is minimally effected by common barriers.
- Barrier Blind: Maintains high performance even through barriers such as clothing, drywall, and glass. The EHP rounds effectively neutralize threats while minimizing deflection and increasing reliability.
- High Reliability: Achieves over 90% reliability, significantly reducing the risk of failure in critical situations compared to traditional hollow points, which fail to expand approximately one-third of the time in gel tests.
- Reduced Recoil: The lightweight 80gr design ensures lower felt recoil, allowing for faster follow-up shots and improved accuracy.
- Less Carrying Weight: A loaded EHP weighs in at 24% lighter than a 115gr round, 30% lighter than a 124gr round, and 46% lighter than a 147gr round. This increases comfort for concealed carry and significantly reduces total loadout weight for duty applications.
How It Works
G9’s Shape Charge Technology utilizes the principles of fluid dynamics to create enhanced wound channels. Upon impact, the bullet's flutes channel the non-compressible fluid and media present in tissue into a high-speed jet. This concentrated force maximizes damage by tearing through surrounding tissue, creating a larger and more reliable wound cavity than traditional expanding bullets.
| COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES | WHAT MAKES THE G9 9MM EHP BETTER? |
|---|---|
| Jacketed Hollow Points (JHP) | Hollow points fail to expand approximately 33% of the time, this rate increases sharply after encountering barriers. EHP rounds eliminate expansion failures, providing consistent performance and larger wound channels than JHPs. |
| Full Metal Jackets (FMJ) | The EHP offers controlled penetration with significantly more tissue damage than Full Metal Jacket rounds. FMJs do have less than a 10% failure rate and perform better than JHP or frangible rounds through barriers, but usually over-penetrate and create smaller wound channels. |
| Frangible Rounds | G9 ensures effective penetration and extensive wound cavities, surpassing shallow frangible wounds seen with Frangible rounds. Frangible rounds have an extremely high failure rate, mainly due to their design to fragment upon impact, resulting in shallow wounds and complete inability to perform through common barriers. |
| Tumbling Rounds | Tumbling rounds fail to achieve the intended tumbling effect more than half of the time, leading to inconsistent performance. The EHP delivers predictable and consistent performance without relying on unpredictable tumbling effects to produce wounding. |
Specifications:
- Bullet Weight: 80gr
- Muzzle Velocity: 1480 FPS
- Muzzle Energy: 389 ft-lb
- Available Quantities: 20-count boxes or 200-round cases
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| Solid Copper External Hollow Point (EHP) Specifications: | 380 ACP | 9 mm | 40 S&W | 45 ACP | 10 mm |
| Weight (grains) | 70 | 80 | 95 | 117 | 95 |
| Muzzle Velocity (FPS) | 1120 | 1480 | 1450 | 1400 | 1720 |
| Muzzle Energy (ft-lb) | 195 | 389 | 450 | 509 |
Best Practices
As with any defensive ammunition, confirm function and POI in your firearm before carry. Evaluate from typical carry distances and note ejection, feeding, and where impacts print relative to your zero.
FAQs
Will it keep the same POI as my practice ammo?
POI varies by firearm and load. For 9mm, a lightweight training round such as 115gr will often track closer to EHP than 124/147gr practice loads. EHP is engineered for POI consistency and function across common barrel lengths and twist rates, but you should confirm POI and function in your pistol and test which training ammo best matches your setup.
Is this suitable for short-barrel pistols?
Yes. Because performance does not rely on an expansion window, EHP maintains consistent terminal behavior over a wide velocity band, including compact pistols.
How should I test before carry?
Run a function/POI check (e.g., 20–40 rounds) at your carry distances. Note feeding/ejection and where impacts print relative to your zero.
How does “barrier blind” apply here?
EHP is tested to perform consistently and with minimal deflection through common intermediate materials while maintaining the intended terminal effect. Always verify in your firearm.
Can I use EHP with compensated or ported barrels?
Generally yes. EHP is compatible with comps/ports. The 80gr EHP uses significantly more powder than heavier grain rounds which lead to the device having a greater effedct muzzle velocity and recoil impulse, which may shift POI and affect timing on some pistols. Verify function and POI in your setup, and keep ports/comp baffles clean to minimize copper fouling.
44 Reviews
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Outstanding Ammo 9mm external hollowpoint
Highly recommend this ammo incredible on all counts.
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9mm EHP
Timely delivery. Perfect product. Will buy more.
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380 and 9mm ext HP
Made a mistake in my order, contacted them quickly, and they were kind enough to modify it for me.. This was something I did not expect. Best customer service ever.
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Smooth
Good shooters
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Ammo
Great purchase
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Runs solid
Rounds shoot smooth with no cycling issues. Run it out of my P365XL with zero issue. Will buy for carry ammo moving forward.
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Quality ammunition
So out of my Beretta 92 GTS this ammunition hits the same spot as the heavier 124 grain I usually use. Very accurate and devastating ammo. It's worth the extra money verses a hollow point.
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Defense ammo
Shipping was quick and they gave me a sticker and a coupon code .Ammo fed in my Taurus 709 slim without any issues this will be my main defense ammo for now on
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G9 +P 9mm EHP
Worth every cent when your life depends on it!!
