What's your Favorite Pistol Caliber?

[MrDig]

Too hard to choose, I shoot most accurately with 9mm or 38/357 so I guess I like them best.

 

[Mac Attack]

.22 LR

Easy to find at just about anywhere, doesn't break the bank or make new worry how
Each pull of the trigger costs me. Plus shooting a 1.5 inch target with open sites at 50 yards can be pretty challenging and fun.

 

[Redneck with a 40]

Before I bought my Ruger SR9-C, I loved shooting my XD-40, thought it was great.

Since I've owned the SR9-C, the 9mm is absolutely my favorite cartridge, the gun is a total joy to shoot and very accurate. 9mm reloads at $6/box are nice too.

I still shoot the XD-40, but not nearly as much. The recoil is quite a bit more stout, even with light target loads.

If I had to let one go.....its bye-bye XD.

 

[doc2rn]

Hands down .22 Mag! IMO the most versatile round and I have a 651 S&W to compliment my Ruger 77/22 MK II, but I want to try a PMR 30 too.
Don't get me wrong I like the .32 H&R in my sp101 and my S&W mod 10 or 65 with .38s are crazy accurate, but the one that goes everywhere and is on each range trip is the .22 Mag. I just dont get how it came to be as expensive as 9mm.

 

[bikerdoc]

What day of the week we talking about?

45, 357, 9mm, 380, 22. The only hand gun calibers I own.

 

[walk soft]

.45 GAP or .357 Sig. Just wish they were cheaper.

 

[Bush Pilot]

Without a doubt it would be the .41 magnum. Any answer other than this only shows you shouldn't be allowed to handle firearms.

 

[10-96]

BikerDoc said:

What day of the week we talking about?

... and I couldn't have said it better myself.

Today? I like the .45AR

 

[savanahsdad]

:banghead:

Without a doubt it would be the .41 magnum. Any answer other than this only shows you shouldn't be allowed to handle firearms.

really ?? I have never seen a "PISTOL" in 41mag

 

[beatledog7]

To make sure I've covered this as it seems to have been intended:

Semi-auto: .40S&W. Balance between power and magazine capacity. It has lots of nay-sayers, but I don't care about that.
Revolver: .357Magnum. It's all been said. Flexibility is the key to a revolver round, and this has it on everything else.

 

[336A]

Another vote for the awesome .41 magnum.

 

[Swing]

.45 ACP. .357 Magnum a close second.

 

[murf]

savanahsdad,

a pistol is a small firearm made to be held and fired with one hand.

a revolver (called a "revolving pistol") is included in this definition.

synonymous with "handgun".

murf

 

[MedWheeler]

Favorite? 22 Long Rifle. Can just do so much with it, and for so little dough. If I was restricted to one handgun only, it would be in that caliber.

 

[harrygunner]

10mm. Have a couple of handguns in that caliber. Will be buying another.

 

[Knockdownpower]

.45 acp, hands down my favorite.

 

[savanahsdad]

murf.... really ?? I thought that too for many years I and found out I was wrong , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol#Action "A PISTOL is handgun with a chamber that is integral with the barrel"
anyway I vote 44mag you can get them in a pistol ,revolver , singel shot, auto rifle and in leverguns , , you can load them as shoot shells , ball , cast ,HP's , ect ect ,,,, Primers like- large pistol , large pistol mag, larg rifle and large mag rifle all work and load data for 44mag covers everything from small game to biggame and it is well known is a man stoper .

 

[Valkman]

Usually I'd say .45acp as that's what I shoot (and reload) the most of. But lately I've been shooting a lot of .44 Mag reloads and just having tons of fun with it.

 

[EMNofSeattle]

for Semi-Auto? 9mm easy to find, cheap, lots of pistols chambered in it.

For revolvers? .38 special for the same reasons as above

 

[303tom]

.32, I love the .327 Mag.................

 

[murf]

savanahsdad,

i don't always believe what i read in wikipedia. i got my info from the websters dictionary.

murf

 

[Ex]

If only one? G20 10mm. Do my own loads so availability is no issue and price is cheap.

10 mm in something... Mines Glock

 

[savanahsdad]

savanahsdad,

i don't always believe what i read in wikipedia. i got my info from the websters dictionary.

murf

I don't . but I do check there sources , I was just trying to be helpful ,years back I remember going to guns shops and gunshows and calling one buy the others name and being told I was wrong ,and nothing wrong with being wrong as long as no one gets hurt and you learn from it . anyway were getting off track
my vote is for the 44mag

 

[CraigC]

I have never seen a "PISTOL" in 41mag

Never seen a Contender or Desert Eagle???

"Pistol" is a term much older than automatics and Sam Colt marketed his lovelies as "revolving pistols".

 

[TennJed]

:banghead:
really ?? I have never seen a "PISTOL" in 41mag

I have seen lots of them