JR24
Member
Because .45ACP is the grand dad of them all and still the best. IMHO hdbiker
Psst... the 9mm is older
Because .45ACP is the grand dad of them all and still the best. IMHO hdbiker
I've been shot 5 times with a 5.56 and in each case it took me 2-3 days to find out. While both times I've been shot with a 45 from a 1911 I've died. Once immediately and the other after a bit of squirming.
Me too. No one could possibly squirm after being shot with a 45.
I know someone who shot himself with a .45 while he was reholstering and didn't even realize he had been shot until his ears stopped ringing...
I have heard that just the thought of being shot with the Mighty .45 has caused some people to die.False.
We all know he would have instantly died the instant the mighty .45 touched him.
I have heard that just the thought of being shot with the Mighty .45 has caused some people to die.
.40
-putting 9mm in a fullsize pistol is like putting a 4 cylinder Dodge Neon engine in a Dodge Viper. Both will get to a grocery store just fine, but nothing wrecks a tire wall, smears a new concrete wall, or slides off a cliff on a mountain road, better than a real Viper.
It's just weird seeing a one inch wide slide chamber something so small.
-I can handle more power with negligible loss of speed
-recoil is nothing, still
-I'm more comfortable with more power. 9mm is the bare minimum acceptable caliber.
-can be loaded soft or heavy for competition
-Glock 23.4 might be the best CCW ever. And a Glock 35.4 can hold it's own in USPSA against $5000 pistols, all day long, without a single worry of reliability.
-it's only a matter of time before 9mm fails famously again.
-I can make a fair argument that .40 is more reliable in auto's than 9mm.
.45 is still one of my favorites. But it does suck at certain barriers.
Where is the empirical evidence that the mighty power upgrade of the .40 has stopped threats faster? I've yet to see any real world data that indicates this.
Without that, in gel you get, with quality ammo like HST, what, maybe an inch more penetration and less than a 1/10 more expansion (diameter, mind you, so halve that for the margin of turning a near miss to a hit) for more recoil and fewer bullets.
What, also, is your definition of a negligible loss in speed?
Personally (and of course your are likely to be different) I found the .40 (Glock 23) cost me about 20-25% split times vs the same platform in 9mm (Glock 19). Sure that's only a few hundredths of a second, but that's a whole extra round in any given second, which would probably be far more likely to end a fight than 0.03 extra radius in expansion.
At least that's how I look at it.
Fair enough. But I'll take the extra inch of pen and the extra quarter inch or Reliable expansion for the extra cost any day.
Then there's barrier penetration, amount of deflection after said penetration, and weight retained after penetration.
My splits are only slower for .40 and even .45, by the same amount of average variation with 9mm. So with .45 I'm only as slow as my slowest 9mm split. Completely negligible.
I didn’t know a I had a twin brother! Go figure. That’s my gun. That’s my cartridge. Leaving the brass on the floor is how I roll. The only correction I would make is that in the 9mm version it isn’t called the LW Commander, just the SR1911 Commander Style. Yes, it has an Al frame, but they dropped the LW designation on the 9mm.1911 ruger lw commander 9mm cheap lots of shooting and the ammo is cheap i don't pick up brass
380’s for little girls.I don’t get it. 45ACP gets 70 votes. 9mm gets 98 votes. And the greatest civilian/citizen personal defense cartridge of all time only gets 12 votes. How many of you carry a 380 in your pocket every day?
And so why your ".380 is for little girls" reply in a previous post?Now let’s not forget that this topic is about what is your favorite semi-Auto pistol cartridge. If we were debating which was the best, things could get ugly.
For those that can’t seem to understand, look at it like what is your favorite drink, or your favorite ice cream. And then tell us why you like it. Mine would be coffee and salted caramel.
When it comes to Semi-Autos, I will always have a 1911 in 45 Auto and a 22 of some kind.
There’s nothing to agree or disagree about, it’s just about what you like.
And so why your ".380 is for little girls" reply in a previous post?
You mean a Glock 43?Glock 42 = .380. Find me a 9mm like that and I'll switch.