Favorite Handgun Cartridge(s)?

38-45 Special · May 27, 2020

Handguns, the gun you have with you when you can't carry the .50 BMG or the .375 H&H rifles with you lol. What is your favorite handgun cartridge(s)?

.38 Special and .45 ACP take the top for me. I'm a bit of an old soul at heart so I love the classics.

Note: Please exclude rifle cartridges like 45-70, 30-30 or any other that the BFR is chambered in. After all, they're still rifle cartridges, just in a handgun.

Middletown · May 27, 2020

38 Special from a 357 firearm.
44 Special from a 44 Mag firearm.

The rest are good stuff but these are my favorites.

Anchorite · May 27, 2020

45 Colt......44 Mag a close second. Both can do it all from mice to elephants.

George P · May 27, 2020

38 and 22lr

Milt1 · May 27, 2020

.357, .44 Special and .45 Colt

giggitygiggity · May 27, 2020

.32ACP: Soft shooter, highly accurate.

7.62x25: Fast, old, big flame, and soft shooting.

.45GAP: Powerful, accurate, fairly rare.

JR24 · May 27, 2020

My favorite was is and likely will always be the .45 ACP. Love how it looks, shoots and reloads. Love opening a fresh box of the big ol fat bullets and looking at them shine in their squatness.

But I carry and shoot mostly 9mm

MedWheeler · May 27, 2020

.22LR, and .38 Special.

375supermag · May 27, 2020

Hi...
Favorite is probably .41Magnum...
Shoot most all the popular handgun calibers and some that aren't so popular so I have a bit of experience after 40+ years.
Second favorite is probably .44Spl followed by .45Colt, .357Magnum and .44Magnum.

Couldn't begin to count the tens of thousands of those rounds sent down range over the decades.

.308 Norma · May 27, 2020

22LR, 38 Special, and 44 Magnum (usually loaded down to 44 Special levels)

WrongHanded · May 27, 2020

So far, it's .44 Magnum. 300gr .44 Magnum.

Though I usually carry a .357 Sig, which I also really like.

.38 Special · May 27, 2020

The .44 Special is closest to my heart. The .45 Colt, in all honesty, is a more versatile cartridge. "If I could only have one handgun" it probably would be chambered for the Colt.

I hope to live to see the .50 Special as a factory cartridge. If Ruger would "mainstream" it like they did with the .480 (a ".50 Ruger" wouldn't bother me at all) then I would be a very happy camper.

black mamba · May 27, 2020

Gotta be the 44 magnum. Very accurate, extremely versatile, and with tremendous availability of ammo and components.

Stevie-Ray · May 27, 2020

Tie between .45 ACP and .22LR. Certainly I shoot .22 far more, but the .45 will likely always be my favorite centerfire.

jmorris · May 27, 2020

Not in order but .22, 380, 9mm, 38/357, 40, 45 ACP, 44 mag, 7mm BR works with your criteria because I don’t own any rifles in the caliber.

I have lots of others but they don’t get used much, 40 is pretty much a USPSA limited round for me, I shoot lots of .22’s, rifle and pistol, same goes for 9mm other than them 45 ACP is up there as far as round count goes.

Insignificant bill · May 27, 2020

22 and 9mm and 38 and 357

Arkansas Paul · May 27, 2020

.45 Colt for me.
I also love plinking with the ol' .38 Spcl as well.

Riomouse911 · May 28, 2020

I’m on the .22 LR, .38 Spl., and .44 Spl camp.
Stay safe.

entropy · May 28, 2020

.45 ACP
.22LR
.357 Magnum
.38 Spl.
.45 LC
9mm
.380 ACP
, and .32-20.

mnrivrat · May 28, 2020

.44 Special .22 LR
,45 ACP
.357 Magnum
.32 H&R Magnum

Ernie Bass · May 28, 2020

22. 380 9mm

Steve S. · May 28, 2020

.45 ACP, .45 Colt, 9mm Luger - old, dull, common but that is what I own, that is what I shoot and that is how my mama told me to do it.

FROGO207 · May 28, 2020

.22 LR is what I have shot most over the years. Now I also shoot several flavors of centerfire as well. Next in line would be 38 SPL/357. Next 45 ACP. Next would be 44 MAG/SPL. I shoot a lot of the others but these are my most practiced with calibers. I bet I could fill an 8 foot bed in a pickup with the lead I have shot over the years now that I think about it.

LoonWulf · May 28, 2020

10mm, and .44 magnum.
I shoot more 9mm and .44 special, but i LIKE the 10 and Mag better.

bannockburn · May 28, 2020

1) .45 ACP in a semi-auto.
1) .45 Colt in a revolver.

2) 9mm. in a semi-auto.
2) .44 Special in a revolver.

3) .38 Super in a semi-auto.
3) .38 Special in a revolver.

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