.45 caliber

[MCgunner]

I shoot .45 colt because the little boy in me likes twanging the diaphragms of everyone like guitars on the firing line after the fusillade of POP, POP, POP, 9mm and BAM, BAM, BAM, .40 subsides. BOOM.... BOOM... BOOM!! It's also more satisfying to hear and feel as you drop those giant shells into the revolver with casual deliberation before closing the gun again.

If you wanna here "boom", try one of these.... In addition, you'll choke out your competitors shooting down wind.

 

[iyn]

I love my .45/1911. So long as I don't have hike with it and ammo. I give all the vets who carried in combat my deepest respect.

 

[slpcrf450x]

Kind of hard for some of us to get our head wrapped around the idea that bigger isn't better, in fact it is worse due to increased recoil and reduced capacity.

I must be one of those that cant wrap my head around it then lol. I hope you didnt go out and buy that Dan Wesson vbob just because all of the crap I was flinging your way about 9mm

I carry a .45 just in case there is a BG in my future who didn't get the memo.

If you think that you don't have enough with 8 rounds out of a 1911 just get an XD/XDm I have 14 rounds of .45 I think that should be plenty... If i slow fire I can group better with that gun at 25 yards than I can with my Ruger Redhawk .44 mag with 7.5" bbl and i can make a good group with that Ruger...
Shooting pretty fast by my standards and with a bunch of practice I can make good hits on a person sized target out to 10-15 yards. farther than that I think I can afford to squeeze the trigger a little slower to get better hits... unless I'm going up against you Ankeny. I should have taken you out when I had the chance in the shop after you busted me in the teeth with that piece of metal, when we were both unarmed Just kidding

 

[chieftain]

I have only been in one gunfight but it involved me putting 4 rounds of 45 ACP into a man's torso with no immediate visible effect. I was under whelmed by the legendary stopping power and instant lethality of the mighty 45 ACP.

I used to buy the hype surrounding the 45 ACP. This incident opened my eyes to the truth. No pistol is particularly powerful and nothing is a sure bet to stop a man.

BINGO!

Both 45acp for 100 years, and the 9mm Luger/Parabellum for 105 years, have been competing ON THE BATTLE FIELD for dominance. Neither has been or can be shown to be clearly superior. 100 years of direct combat experience for both, and all we know for sure is that both work. The 9mm has vastly more history and ‘experience’ then the 45acp around the world.

My own combat experience is military, and I have used a 1911 45acp and a S&W Victory model (model 10 ‘K’ frame) 38spl. Handguns, I didn’t see any real difference in results when bullets are placed where they needed to be or when the bullets didn’t go where needed.

My point is that as far as handgun of combat calibers are concerned where the bullet goes is what counts, NOT WHICH CAILBER goes there.

I mostly carry a 1911 because I like how thin it is and still fits my hand very well. When I carry 9mm these days it isn’t my Hipowers, but one of my HK P30’s. because the P30 is the gun that fits my hand best after the 1911 that I have ‘fit’ to my hand.

Which caliber I use doesn’t matter, the 1911 carries enough rounds to accomplish anything I need accomplished with a handgun. Although generally more rounds are better than less. I have never felt under gunned or such with a 357mag/38spl 6shot revolver either.

If I do my job the caliber will work or not as well as any other fighting caliber. I have yet to figure out the reason for the 40 Short & Weak either. Obviously some very experienced folks disagree with me, but in the end it is purely opinion. Not fact.

Pick a reliable platform, Make sure it fits you, and you don’t have to adapt to the gun, and then get all the quality training and quality practice you can afford. Learn your weapon and maintain it properly.

If you think “which caliber is better” is the question, your really don’t understand the problem.

Spend your effort, time, and money learning to make good hits during a real fight. Not rationalizing caliber selection.

Good luck.

Fred