Re: What brand of bullets in your self defense pistol?
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Originally Posted by
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Once you get into rifle calibers wounding capabilities are much different. My chlice for 9mm is a combination or control, capacity, and capability. Service caliber rounds wounding capabilities are virtually identical. A pistol bullet like 45 is going to cause a slightly bigger permanent cavity. Temporary stretch cavity is going to be meaningless in service caliber pistols.
Everyone has to carry what they feel comfortable with, and I carry 45acp sometimes. The wounding mechanism of the bullet can also change the amount of damage done. Whegher it be expansion or fragmenting. Once you get into rifles the discussion becomes much more complex. I will post a pic of what type of damage a very small rifle bullet can do.
haha, i love these talks cause we are all apples and oranges on stuff. i realize the huge differences in performance between the two weapons between a rifle and a hand gun. haha, i cant speak for being struck by a pistol round but i can from a rifle round and from team members being struck. none of my team mates were ever struck by pistol rounds other than knowing a guy that shot himself in the calf with a 9mm and a gunner that shot himself in the foot during the first gulf war.
i have saw in person during clearing a dude get stuck with 6 rounds of 9mm from about 12-15ft away that ran 5-6 rooms down and continued to fight until he was taken out by a frag. then in another situation a dude took 2 .45 rounds to the chest and dropped in his tracks. again we use fmj rounds at all times. i have always saw and felt the performance of the .45 was huge compared to the 9mm.
now as far as carry and handling. i will agree with you on compacts and sub compacts a 9mm or a .357 is much more controllable to handle for pairs and follow on shots. even with a mag extension on the mag a .40 and .45 can be a ***** to get off a pair and follow up shots under control. mid size and full size all day long no issues but subs yeah not so much.
great points you bring to the table but again with the 2 guys i knew (really not that well) that shot themselves with 9mm it was in and out with no significant damage. the old gunner actually shot off his little toe haha and a little chunk above it. the calf guy's just went in at the top of the head and came out the bottom. neither would have even come close to being near max velocity at that close of a range but i doubt it would have made much difference with a 9mm round
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