What's your favorite handgun caliber?

[Gun Slinger]

Self Defense/Serious Social Situations: 9x19

Goofing Off "On-The-Cheap"/Serious Practice/Range Work: .22LR

Combat Rifle: 7.62x39

All-around hunting: .30-06

 

[Galen]

9mm = stun
40s&w = maim
45acp = kill

10mm = NUKE!



I also like the 9x18mm Makarov, .357 Magnum, .44 Special, .44 Magnum, .45 Colt.

 

[Hunter0924]

.45 Automatic.
Yet to find a box labeled .45 ACP.

 

[c1ogden]

Almost all of my guns are .22, .38/357, or 9mm.

These calibers are (relatively) cheap, readily (and widely) available, don't kick much, come in a wide range of loads, and only require that I stock 3 calibers.

I have some other guns but about 90% of them are in one of these 3 calibers.

 

[glockman19]

I like all of my handgun calibers. I regularly carry .38 and 9mm. I love .357 & .44 mag. who doesn't love the .45 ACP? and .22LR is cheap to plink.

 

[Cohibra45]

I have only 45s. 4-45Colt, 2-45acp (soon to have another). Helps in reloading only having one caliber!!!

My favorite depends on if I like shooting my revolvers or the autos that day!!!

 

[guntotinguy]

1. .45ACP

2. 357Mag

3. .40SW

 

[Coyote3855]

.45 Colt. Six revolvers and two rifles.

 

[bluez4u]

.40, the Hi-Power handles them well.

 

[TexasRifleman]

10mm = NUKE!

Yes, what he said please

 

[sqlbullet]

10mm

Soon adding a 9X25 barrel to my Witness, and based on ballistics I think it might be a keeper too.

 

[thunder173]

All of them that I own,...and a couple that I don't.......

 

[BADUNAME37]

S&W 500 Mag

 

[.38 Special]

.44 Special.

Not because it's any better than the dozen or so popular handgun calibers, but because it's cooler than all the 9mm/45 ACP/40 S&W yawners out there.

 

[Aaryq]

9 by 18 mike-mike

 

[indiandave]

Star Wars Blaster would be my first choice, but I carry .38 Special for now.

 

[amprecon]

I think the .40s&w is a nice compromise caliber.

 

[Geno]

.45 ACP for stopping power
9mm for lots of rounds
.22LR for cost-effectiveness and fun

 

[XDGirl]

9mm

 

[hatchetbearer]

600 Nitro Express. 45/70 govt., 12 Ga (do sawn-offs count?)

 

[ldp4570]

.38SPL and .22LR. There is nothing more enjoyable at the range than a day with my K22 and K38.

 

[BikerRN]

.357 Magnum for the "All Around".

BikerRN

 

[Deanimator]

38 Special, loaded up, down, +p, light bullet, heavy bullet. It does it all well.

+1. I've got thousands of .38 Special cases I mean to load.

 

[AndrewGWU]

357 mag.... the best option out there

However, I like my 9mm due to the option of higher capacity.

 

[BADUNAME37]

357 is real nice. I once had a new stainless S&W 686-6" barrel with Millett sights I installed.

I loaded various rounds for that, but one that sticks out in my mind is Speer 158g lead semi-wadcutter flat points.

I hand-loaded for that gun and picked the precise load that was most accurate with Speer 158g lead semi-wadcutters (I think it was Unique powder I was using). With open sights, a friend and I had to shoot a bunch of red squirrels and chipmunks that were chewing on sap lines (miles of plastic tubing to bring the sap down through the woods to make maple syrup).

I remember hitting red squirrels out to about 80 yards with that gun, and my friend liked it too, as he was also shooting it real well. We did eat what little meat is on the squirrels. It was kind of like eating chicken, from what I remember, and tasted much like chicken -- cooked over the sap boiling hearth fire.

Like many guns that have "come and gone" over the years, that one is, unfortnately "gone." Someone, somewhere, has a nice piece.