Anyone Not Have a 9mm?

Nope, Not me.

Nope Never felt the need for one.

I have .22's, .357's, .45acp's & .45 Colts.
I still don't feel the need for one.
DSW owns 2, a BHP & a S&W.

Have a good-un, now,

Old John
"And, Look for the Humor in Life"

I prefer revolvers and never felt the need for a 9mm. A nice 10MM revolver - that is another thing entirely. Amazing the difference one little mm makes.

I too, found out that I can get a heck of a lot more practice with 9mm than with any other "defensive" calibers. I started out with .40 caliber guns exclusively, which are both expensive and not fun to shoot.

Now, my collection is almost exclusively 9mm, save for a Colt 1911 I just bought and a .32 NAA Guardian.

I have had pistols in just about every caliber (I think ), even a .400 Cor-Bon and .50 AE. Of them all my hands down favorite for plinking, defensive purposes and competition is the 9mm Parabellum.

And before I am accused of bias, I must relate that my second favorite is the .45 ACP (although I will admit I am becoming more and more impressed by the .45 GAP ).

I have two .22s, a .38 and a .357, but no 9mm. Been shooting them several times, and often tempted to get one. If I ever will, most probably it'll be a CZ 75 or a Glock 17.

Not me, just a .45. M1911A1

I think I'm down to three 9mm's. An EAA Witness PS-Polymer frame and ported, Browning High Power Competition and an Inglis High Power. My regular carry gun(s) are a pair of Mk III .40 S&W High Powers though.

I shoot the 9's more than anything else, ammo is just so cheap.

I have no need for a 9mm hole punch. I have plenty of things that punch larger holes and a gazillion 22's.

I presently own five 9mms. I will probably own six before the month is over. I really like the cheap shooting they provide.

The best 9mms are just as good as the best .40s and .45s by all facts and figuires I have seen.

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Albanian dude, you should quit reading "statistics" or "one shot stops" and such hokey.

There is only one true fact... John Moses Browning intended the 1911 to fire a .45 caliber bullet. JUST KIDDING... just couldn't resist.

But really, here is the ONE TRUE FACT (ask any physician, not a bullet salesman)...

The only way to guarantee immediate incapacitation of an aggressive adversary is to dismantle his central nervous system. That means that the bullet, REGARDLESS of the caliber, MUST sever the spinal cord or damage a portion of the brain controlling voluntary motor skills.

It's really senseless to argue about how .05" of bullet radius is better or worse. And, I really think your personal crusade against machismo is sort of futile. Just laugh; you know the real truth.

John Moses Browning intended the 1911 to fire a .45 caliber bullet.

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True, but only because the 1906-1907 Army Selection Board made this caliber a requirement for entry into the pistol competition. The pistol that the 1911 decended from, the Model 1905, was actually .38 Auto. So, we can thank John Browning for the design, but it was the Army who (right or wrong) demanded the .45.

It's a minor point, but it does indicate where Browning's priorities were when it came to calibers.

The pistol that the 1911 decended from, the Model 1905, was actually .38 Auto.

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No it wasn't.
Perhaps a breif history lesson is needed.

There was the 1900 which was chgambered in .38 ACP


Then you had the 1902 Sporting Model in .38 ACP


and the 1902 Military also in .38 ACP


Notice that Browning & Colt had gotten over the front cocking serrations idea by 1903.

Then you had the 1903 Pocket Hammer in .38 ACP


All of these used the original twin link design.

Then came the model 1905 in .45 ACP (200gr FMJ)


And the 1907 Militrary contract in .45 ACP (first grip safety)


Then came the first single link design, the 1909 Model .45 ACP


And the 1910 Model .45 ACP gets us closer to the final model

I don't own any 9's. I have in the past (Ruger P89 and Heritage Stealth). However, I'd rather stick with .45 for CCW. Right now, I own 8 handguns (4x.45 ACP, 1x.357/.38, 2x.22lr, and 1x.22lr/.22mag convertible) My wife owns two (1x.32, and 1x.38). I just don't see a need for another caliber right now. If I can't afford to shoot .45 ACP, I shoot .22 that week.

Of course, I am in the process of building a new AR and will be registering it as an SBR, so I will probably register it in 9mm as well as 5.56 (also .22, .45, 7.62x39, and 6.8). So, I'll most likely end up with a 9mm upper for it one of these days. I can't say it'll cause me to run out and buy a 9mm pistol though.

Frank

Hi Bluesbear,

Thanks for the correction and the beautiful pictures. My intention had been to say the model 1902, but my memory got a little flaky.

My point is still the same, though. The .45 chambering of the model 1905 was in response to the Army's request, not Browning's preference for the larger round. If the Luger had won the Army contract, would we be praising Georg Luger and Hugo Borchardt for bestowing the 45 Auto on us?

Edited to spell "Bluesbear" correctly. Sorry about that!

Well I figure it was only a matter of time until someone developed an automatic cartridge that would duplicate the ever popular .45 Colt.

I think the British were already working on their own self loading version of the .455 revolver cartridge.

The .38 Super and to a smaller extent the .38 ACP, were already fairly popular in this country until the 1960s. It was the influx of affordable 9mm surplus pistols and dirt cheap 9mm surplus ammo that gave the 9mm Luger cartridge such a jump start. I cam remember when the ONLY American made 9mm pistols were the Colt Commander and the S&W 39. And in the late 1950s the .38 Super Colts were outselling both of them.

Also at that time the ONLY semi automatic ammo being produced anywhere was loaded with Full Metal Patch bullets so there wasn't a whole heck of a lot of difference in the terminal ballistics of 9mm and .38 Super when fired into badguys. And I recall that there was a lot more .38 ACP ammo on dealers shelves at that time than there was of the more expensive .38 Super ammo. (The Colt Commanders digested the standard stuff just fine.) So if you compare the effectiveness of 9mm versus the .38 ACP, you have an almost dead heat.

Modern day bullet technology has narrowed the gap considerably.

Not to 9mm

At present my horde does not contain a 9mm but hope next year to add a BHP. Did have a Sig 9mm (factory recondtioned) which shot everything fed it--no FTF or FTE. Traded it.

only 22lr and 10mm here except a Marlin Camp 9

http://photos.ohioglockers.com/Long-guns-and-pistols

I own many calibers. no 9mm though. well, unless you count the Luger. But I don't shoot it, so I don't.

I have been tempted by a Hi-Power and a CZ75 a few times though. I just like my calibers to start with a .4 or to be suffixed with Magnum.

Not yet, but once I get my hands on a CZ 75B SA . . .

I don't (yet) use my guns for anything but paper punching, so caliber choice usually boils down to what I feel like shooting, and how much it costs. I have a .38 spl snub, a 6" bbl .357 for when I want some nice crack-o'-doom effects, and a .22 pistol for relaxing practice. A 9mm auto will fill a gap for me, and use ammo I can afford to buy more of than almost anything else.

Of course, every now and then I get a hankering to shoot a .45, or a .44 Mag, but that's what they make rentals for.

I went for a time (about three years) without a 9x19 handgun, but I decided I needed an autoloader in a caliber between .22 LR and .45 ACP. The cheapest round available in the platform I like to shoot (1911) was the 9x19. So I bought an STI Trojan 5.0. I also have a 9x23 Winchester built on a Colt Government Model and an S&W M952-2. I also picked up an S&W M3913 for my wife.

I find it interesting that the pistol JMB carried for personal defense was an FN Mle. 1900 in .32 ACP. Hmmmmmm.....

No 9mm. All I have is a BP .36, and a .22LR

I have never owned a 9MM. I've shot several but I just didn't like them. Then again I have shot very few auto's that I like.

I don't have a 9mm. Won't be able to make this claim tomorrow though. My wife liked the 9mm she tried a couple of weeks ago so now we're going to get one of those new fangled 'wondernines'.

-Jim

Beware of the man without a 9mm!