Charles S
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Kahr Arms K9. Compact and rated for +P+.
From Kahr's website.
Charles
From Kahr's website.
Charles
Which 9mm shoots the hottest ammunition?
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sturmruger
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My vote would be for either a P95 or P89. THose are some tough as nails guns.
Lots of good choices and I have Rugers and Star 30M partly for durabilty reasons. Also I'd say the CZ series guns like the CZ75 with an all steel frame should stand up fairly well but I have not personally tried it, all my CZ and CZ clones are in 40S&W,not 9x19, and I have not fied them a whole lot.
Gixerman1000
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I own most of the top service 9mm's and the USP9 gets my vote.
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Jeff Timm
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Ruger Blackhawk single action with 9mm cylinder.
http://www.ruger-firearms.com/Firearms/FAProdView?model=308&return=Y
I wouldn't worry much about 180 gr hunting loads in .357 either.
Geoff
Who has a need for a flexible single action again.
http://www.ruger-firearms.com/Firearms/FAProdView?model=308&return=Y
I wouldn't worry much about 180 gr hunting loads in .357 either.
Geoff
Who has a need for a flexible single action again.
StrikeEagle
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Great question. About 15 years ago I asked myself the same. Did a lot of research, the best I knew how to do. Read everything I could find on this, and talked to anyone who I thought would know anything about it. Wrote letters to the 'top' gun writers, too.
Read reports from ranges who rent guns and have seen just about everything.
The clear 'best' given the criteria was the Star Model 31P. So I got one. It's heavy, all steel, and very decently made. It's a beast of a gun. Been 100% reliable with all the ammo I've used. (except for some Egyptian stuff with MIGHTY hard primers... every other 9 I have has the same problem with it... it's really SMG ammo. Sometimes takes a second whack to get a round to fire. Fine with me; it was way cheap ammo.)
So there's the answer I found for myself. I'm fully persuaded that this gun will keep on ticking long after my other 9mm's have hung up their spikes.
http://www.gunsamerica.com/guns/976609992.htm <---- there goes one now!
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duncan
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Without a doubt, a P7. Problem is it will heat up after several boxes but it's all steel slide and frame was designed for it.
Any 9mm Glock would also do well.
Any 9mm Glock would also do well.
duncan
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StrikeEagle, Star has made some serious tanks.
Ruger move over.
If that gun is anything like my old Star Megastar, it will last for a long long time.
To bad Star went away.
Ruger move over.
If that gun is anything like my old Star Megastar, it will last for a long long time.
To bad Star went away.
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duncan
I looked up the MegaStar... here's what I found:
Star Mega-Star:
A large Double Action handgun, the Spanish Mega-Star is quite a handful. Its beefiness makes it very suitable for the calibers in wich it is chambered, the .45 ACP, and the powerful 10 mm cartridges.
The gun is of good quality, and is more than accurate enough for a combat handgun, which it primarily is. A interesting feature is that the entire trigger assembly can be lifted out of the gun, to be replaced with a Single Action trigger assembly for those who prefer this. It should be noted that, although the gun can be had in two calibers, it is not possible to convert it from one caliber to the other.
The Mega-Star uses a twelve round magazine in its .45 ACP version, and a fourteen round magazine in its 10 mm version.
Not sure I've ever seen one, but this sounds really good to me. Yeah, a tank. If these guys were still around, making a .40 S&W, that's the one I'd be buying, I'm pretty sure. Bet those suckers would never KB!
StrikeEagle
I looked up the MegaStar... here's what I found:
Star Mega-Star:
A large Double Action handgun, the Spanish Mega-Star is quite a handful. Its beefiness makes it very suitable for the calibers in wich it is chambered, the .45 ACP, and the powerful 10 mm cartridges.
The gun is of good quality, and is more than accurate enough for a combat handgun, which it primarily is. A interesting feature is that the entire trigger assembly can be lifted out of the gun, to be replaced with a Single Action trigger assembly for those who prefer this. It should be noted that, although the gun can be had in two calibers, it is not possible to convert it from one caliber to the other.
The Mega-Star uses a twelve round magazine in its .45 ACP version, and a fourteen round magazine in its 10 mm version.
Not sure I've ever seen one, but this sounds really good to me. Yeah, a tank. If these guys were still around, making a .40 S&W, that's the one I'd be buying, I'm pretty sure. Bet those suckers would never KB!
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duncan
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You are right! The gun without the bullets weighs more than four pounds.
I had one in 45 acp and stupdily sold it :banghead:
Designed for 10mm and then modified for 45 ACP so it's really overengineered and it's built for the hotter European 45 loads.
I had one in 45 acp and stupdily sold it :banghead:
Designed for 10mm and then modified for 45 ACP so it's really overengineered and it's built for the hotter European 45 loads.
Custard
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I was told the P7. Not just because it is all steel but because the gas system uses the extra pressure to buffer the slide.
Down at FLETC they used to shoot submachine gun ammo in them all the time. Sreiously hot stuff. This was 1994. I'm not sure we were using the term +P+ back then.
Dan
Down at FLETC they used to shoot submachine gun ammo in them all the time. Sreiously hot stuff. This was 1994. I'm not sure we were using the term +P+ back then.
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