phantomak47
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what does everyone think about the new Glock 45 round? I havent read many great things about it. What do yall think about it?
.45 ACP brass is MORE plentiful, so me being a handloader...
The 45 GAP runs at around 23k PSI.It gives 10+ rounds of .45 ACP performance at .45 ACP+P pressures out of 9mm size (or slightly larger) platforms.
Either .45 GAP will go the way of .357 SIG
You mean adopted by many agencies (including some of the most prestigious) throughout the nation?
The .45GAP was designed to duplicate .45ACP performance in a smaller package. It does that in all bullet weights. Can the .45ACP be loaded hotter than the GAP--sure it can--that's what having a bigger case does for you. Using that rationale the .40S&W has no purpose since the 10mm can be loaded to outperform the .40S&W.If you load the 45 ACP to 23k PSI, you will outperform the GAP by a considerable margin. Don't believe me? Look at Midways handloading book for the 45 ACP.
However you look at it, with a smaller round you can make a smaller gun. So you make thinner grips for a .45--take those thin grips and put them on a GAP and you have an even SMALLER gun.And as far as a thinner frame... Yeah, that can be solved by placing thinner grips on a .45.
You can replace the grips on the Glock and XD? RIIIIIIGHT.So you make thinner grips for a .45--take those thin grips and put them on a GAP and you have an even SMALLER gun.
.07 smaller. Big deal. My point is the ACP is underloaded.The .45GAP was designed to duplicate .45ACP performance in a smaller package. It does that in all bullet weights. Can the .45ACP be loaded hotter than the GAP--sure it can--that's what having a bigger case does for you.
You can replace the grips on the Glock and XD? RIIIIIIGHT.
Or get a 36 and be thinner yet.
Regardless of actual case dimension, have you ever compared a Glock 21 or 20 to a Glock 17/22/37? There is a noticable difference in grip size and feel. I mean, the 17/19/22/23 is surely at the very top of most issued/adopted guns in law enforcement while more than one agency has passed on the G21 because of it's large grip. If no one had ever complained about the size of the G21 grip, Glock would have been radically less likely to have come to market with the 45GAP in the first place.To claim a double stack gun with 7/100 difference in the grip is a big deal is just a cheap marketing ploy.