Extreme Shock

06-12-2004, 07:14 AM

http://www.extremeshockusa.com/cgist...ENTID&cart_id=

ShooMac · 01-19-2005, 04:31 PM

Yeah. I've seen their ads in some gun magazines and their product at gun shows. "World's Premier Anti-Terrorist Rounds"? I mean, come on. How often do I need to shoot a terrorist? Once a month, maybe? What if you need to shoot a rapist who just happens to NOT be a terrorist? Well an anti-terrorist round isn't going to help you there buddy! Let me tell you: EXTREME! ammo is just a gateway to other EXTREME! things, such as skateboarding and drinking Mountain Dew and calling people "dude". Just say "no".

Troy · 01-19-2005, 04:48 PM

a rapist is a terrorist, permission to fire granted.

BattleRifleG3 · 01-19-2005, 05:03 PM

Welcome to Gunandgame, ShooMac. Great sense of humor there!

smoker · 01-19-2005, 05:09 PM

Wow. The text on that website reminds me of a diet pill infomercial. A "wound channel of catastrophic proportions"? C'mon, they aren't wide-beam death rays. At any rate, until reports of actual human shootings with these things come in, I'll load regular JHPs and Glasers. Don't bet your life on the hype--stick to what has been proven to work.

Troy · 01-19-2005, 05:13 PM

never used the glasers but sure have heard impressive things about those as well.

01-19-2005, 05:35 PM

if I can't find it I can't buy it

Big Dog · 01-19-2005, 05:37 PM

Yep, they kill the goblin even deader than before!

I keep Glasers in my Colt .45 auto while in the 'hood' - don't wanna be busting thru walls four doors down in the event . . .

The shotgun is loaded with No.4 Buck - nasty up close.
Don't get much more "extreme" than that.

Doncha love the Advertising guys . . . uh . . . "dudes"? A few years back, everything was "turbo-charged!", shoes, bicycles, things that had no connection with an engine.
I always loved "New and Improved!" - how can it be improved if it's a new thing?

NorCalAshnjikov · 01-19-2005, 09:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big Dog

Yep, they kill the goblin even deader than before!

I keep Glasers in my Colt .45 auto while in the 'hood' - don't wanna be busting thru walls four doors down in the event . . .

The shotgun is loaded with No.4 Buck - nasty up close.
Don't get much more "extreme" than that.

Doncha love the Advertising guys . . . uh . . . "dudes"? A few years back, everything was "turbo-charged!", shoes, bicycles, things that had no connection with an engine.
I always loved "New and Improved!" - how can it be improved if it's a new thing?

I remember computers with turbo buttons, oh yeah!

ShooMac · 01-19-2005, 10:18 PM

Hey guys. Seriously, when I have seen them they were insanely overpriced: several dollars per handgun round. They just seem to gimmicky for me to trust something as serious as ammo. Again, I have never used any.

And yeah, I remember PCs with "turbo" buttons. Would anyone ever want to turn it off?

silentknight · 01-20-2005, 11:00 PM

They look wicked as hell but if i can't drop an attacker with a couple .40 jhp's to the head/chest i'm royally screwed anyway you look at it. I don't care what the hollow points look like, as long as they expand upon entry its going to do enough damage in my book. These rounds are an overpriced gimmick(sp)

Thrawn · 01-22-2005, 03:31 PM

Yeah I've seen the ads, got a couple of dudes in black executing some "extreme covert black ops recon/raid misson". All this "spec ops" stuff is getting a little lame, but some of the local cops (the ones approx same age as me) just eat this swill up. Occasionally you'll see one with black BDU's, 5 different knives strapped to various body parts, and either a pistol caliber carbine or shotgun. But of course these are festooned with an array of scopes, lasers, lights, red dots, ammo carriers, 500 different picatinny rails, GPS units, sattilite uplinks, cameras, grenade launchers, extension cords, night vision, infared, thermal tracking, blah, blah, blah.....

Big Dog · 01-22-2005, 07:45 PM

Thrawn, they gotta be ready for anything when facing off against a streetkid in the 'hood flashing his pot-metal 'Roscoe'.

Yep, it's all about being 'tactical' these days. They have taken to the military spec-ops idea of "overwhelming firepower". It seems really over the top in many situations. The days of one good cop defusing the situation is over - now they just call in the SWAT team.

I'm not flaming the good cops - but some SOP decisions made at the higher levels haven't been good.

01-22-2005, 07:49 PM

it's all marketting...it ain't gonna sell if the SWAT or SOCOM team members aren't carrying them

ShooMac · 01-30-2005, 09:09 PM

OK LD. I went to the gun show today and checked out the Extreme Shock ammo for sale. .40 S&W = 14.95!

Oh yeah, all handgun loads come in FIVE round blister packs. So that's about $3/round. Why five rounds at a time? Maybe they figure that "no honest man needs more than" that. Why my .357 has six chambers is anyone's guess.

You can buy boxes of their ammo. It comes in a standard 50/round brick, just like everybody else's does. Except that there are only TWENTY-FIVE rounds in the box. Half the box is packed with a cardboard spacer. They could put it in a smaller package (like Hydra-Shok's 20/round box), but don't.

I call shenanigans.

gunssb · 01-30-2005, 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShooMac

Except that there are only TWENTY-FIVE rounds in the box. Half the box is packed with a cardboard spacer.

bwahahaha

01-31-2005, 07:10 AM

I'll stick with Hydra Shoks..unless I can find Quik Shoks :right:

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06-12-2004, 07:14 AM	#1
Logansdad Guest Posts: n/a	Extreme Shock http://www.extremeshockusa.com/cgist...ENTID&cart_id=

01-19-2005, 04:31 PM	#2
ShooMac Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 354	Yeah. I've seen their ads in some gun magazines and their product at gun shows. "World's Premier Anti-Terrorist Rounds"? I mean, come on. How often do I need to shoot a terrorist? Once a month, maybe? What if you need to shoot a rapist who just happens to NOT be a terrorist? Well an anti-terrorist round isn't going to help you there buddy! Let me tell you: EXTREME! ammo is just a gateway to other EXTREME! things, such as skateboarding and drinking Mountain Dew and calling people "dude". Just say "no". __________________ "Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun." - Ash

01-19-2005, 05:03 PM	#4
BattleRifleG3 Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Western PA Posts: 11,429 Images: 13	Welcome to Gunandgame, ShooMac. Great sense of humor there! __________________ Trust is earned, not... GIVEN away. - Worf

01-19-2005, 05:09 PM	#5
smoker Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Fayetteville, NC Posts: 67	Wow. The text on that website reminds me of a diet pill infomercial. A "wound channel of catastrophic proportions"? C'mon, they aren't wide-beam death rays. At any rate, until reports of actual human shootings with these things come in, I'll load regular JHPs and Glasers. Don't bet your life on the hype--stick to what has been proven to work. __________________ Audentes fortuna juvat. -Virgil Nemo me impune lacessit. -motto of the Order of the Thistle "Mister, we deal in lead." -The Magnificent Seven

01-19-2005, 04:48 PM	#3
Troy Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Manitoba Canada Posts: 2,505 Images: 3	a rapist is a terrorist, permission to fire granted.

01-19-2005, 05:13 PM	#6
Troy Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Manitoba Canada Posts: 2,505 Images: 3	never used the glasers but sure have heard impressive things about those as well.

01-19-2005, 05:35 PM	#7
Logansdad Guest Posts: n/a	if I can't find it I can't buy it

01-19-2005, 05:37 PM	#8
Big Dog Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Tallahassee, Florida Posts: 10,359	Yep, they kill the goblin even deader than before! I keep Glasers in my Colt .45 auto while in the 'hood' - don't wanna be busting thru walls four doors down in the event . . . The shotgun is loaded with No.4 Buck - nasty up close. Don't get much more "extreme" than that. Doncha love the Advertising guys . . . uh . . . "dudes"? A few years back, everything was "turbo-charged!", shoes, bicycles, things that had no connection with an engine. I always loved "New and Improved!" - how can it be improved if it's a new thing? __________________ Moderator of: AR15/M16, M14/M1A, New/Beginning Shooters and Militaria/Collectables.

01-19-2005, 10:18 PM	#10
ShooMac Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 354	Hey guys. Seriously, when I have seen them they were insanely overpriced: several dollars per handgun round. They just seem to gimmicky for me to trust something as serious as ammo. Again, I have never used any. And yeah, I remember PCs with "turbo" buttons. Would anyone ever want to turn it off? __________________ "Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun." - Ash

01-20-2005, 11:00 PM	#11
silentknight Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Iowa Posts: 1,125 Images: 3	They look wicked as hell but if i can't drop an attacker with a couple .40 jhp's to the head/chest i'm royally screwed anyway you look at it. I don't care what the hollow points look like, as long as they expand upon entry its going to do enough damage in my book. These rounds are an overpriced gimmick(sp) __________________ Sic Vis Pacem Parabellum

01-22-2005, 03:31 PM	#12
Thrawn Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Okeefenokee Posts: 1,618 Images: 6	Yeah I've seen the ads, got a couple of dudes in black executing some "extreme covert black ops recon/raid misson". All this "spec ops" stuff is getting a little lame, but some of the local cops (the ones approx same age as me) just eat this swill up. Occasionally you'll see one with black BDU's, 5 different knives strapped to various body parts, and either a pistol caliber carbine or shotgun. But of course these are festooned with an array of scopes, lasers, lights, red dots, ammo carriers, 500 different picatinny rails, GPS units, sattilite uplinks, cameras, grenade launchers, extension cords, night vision, infared, thermal tracking, blah, blah, blah.....

01-22-2005, 07:45 PM	#13
Big Dog Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Tallahassee, Florida Posts: 10,359	Thrawn, they gotta be ready for anything when facing off against a streetkid in the 'hood flashing his pot-metal 'Roscoe'. Yep, it's all about being 'tactical' these days. They have taken to the military spec-ops idea of "overwhelming firepower". It seems really over the top in many situations. The days of one good cop defusing the situation is over - now they just call in the SWAT team. I'm not flaming the good cops - but some SOP decisions made at the higher levels haven't been good. __________________ Moderator of: AR15/M16, M14/M1A, New/Beginning Shooters and Militaria/Collectables.

01-22-2005, 07:49 PM	#14
Logansdad Guest Posts: n/a	it's all marketting...it ain't gonna sell if the SWAT or SOCOM team members aren't carrying them

01-30-2005, 09:09 PM	#15
ShooMac Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 354	Extreme price shock OK LD. I went to the gun show today and checked out the Extreme Shock ammo for sale. .40 S&W = 14.95! Oh yeah, all handgun loads come in FIVE round blister packs. So that's about $3/round. Why five rounds at a time? Maybe they figure that "no honest man needs more than" that. Why my .357 has six chambers is anyone's guess. You can buy boxes of their ammo. It comes in a standard 50/round brick, just like everybody else's does. Except that there are only TWENTY-FIVE rounds in the box. Half the box is packed with a cardboard spacer. They could put it in a smaller package (like Hydra-Shok's 20/round box), but don't. I call shenanigans. __________________ "Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun." - Ash

01-31-2005, 07:10 AM	#17
Logansdad Guest Posts: n/a	I'll stick with Hydra Shoks..unless I can find Quik Shoks :right: