That is simply not true! Most of the popular pocket 380 pistols today are just like the 9mm are not blowback, but rather are locked beach actions and if you try shooting a 9mm in the same size and weight as the popular pocket 380 pistols you are going to feel a lot more recoil from the 9mm.
I think the trigger on the P64 is subpar compared to the CZ82. But, I must agree:
The end of innocence must be nigh when all but a few posters comment to the uncomfortable shooting nature of a center fire cartridge in a gun not much larger than a key chain.
Based on what? Is it because the TCP is much more pocketable, or maybe because the TCP is much lighter, or because the TCP is a locked breach action that has less felt recoil? Just curious.I think the trigger on the P64 is subpar compared to the CZ82. But, I must agree:
1. P64 is a bear to shoot. Once, while slow firing, the cross pin that hinges the trigger guard fell out, and the damned thing field stripped itself...after loosing a round down range. Scary.
2. Minus that issue, never a malfunction. Flared the pin, lil blue Loctite, never comes loose. I'd take it over a Taurus TCP.
Based on weight, and weight alone. Neither has a trigger I care for, so it would be subjective and unfair of me to say either is better in that regard. Action type helps, but weight trumps my ability to shoot the TCP any better or any less "painful" than a P64.
I was a little surprised to find that depending on your estimate of powder (5 and 20 gr were mine) a Taurus LCP shooting Cor-Bon 90 gr has more recoil velocity than a Super Redhawk firing Buffalo Bore's "Ruger/Thompson" heavy 340 grain loads. Far less total energy, but velocity was higher.
"Blowback" and what you refer to as "tilt barrel" which should be called "Locked Breach" are two distinctly different mechanisms!multiple wt in grs by velocity in fps, and drop the meaningless zeros, and you get recoil momentum "factor" for instance 50 grs at 2000 fps is the same "10-factor" recoil as 100 grs at 1000 fps. but the former has 450 ft lbs of energy, the latter has 220 ft lbs. If 2 guns are the same weight and both have a Browning tilting barrel delayed blowback, like the keltec does, then 90 grs at 800 fps will have the same recoil in the 9 oz p3AT as 180 grs at 800 fps in an 18 oz P40 keltec, which was/is so violent that KT quit making it. Also, the shorter the barrel/slide and shorter the grip, the worse the gun torques its muzzle upward in your hand. If you think that the P3at is bad, add 2 ozs, 20% of weight, as in the 11 oz Diamondback 9mm, and add 450 fps, as with a Corbon plus P 9mm, at 1250 fps in the pocket 9. Sheesh! I added 1 oz (3/4") of steel barrel extension, 2 ozs of steel "cap" and side-shims: to the slide, and 3 ozs of lead stock panels to the frame. Now it's adequately contolable with my loads (10 factor, not 12 factor).
