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View Poll Results: What is your experience with a .45 GAP? | |||
I have never heard of the .45 GAP. | 5 | 9.09% | |
I don’t like .45 GAP, but have never fired one. | 32 | 58.18% | |
I have fired a GAP, but don’t like them. | 10 | 18.18% | |
I have fired a GAP and love them. | 8 | 14.55% | |
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September 27, 2012, 09:33 PM | #26 |
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My Lyman manual has the ACP as about 17k psi for a max load while the GAP is 22k. That's barely starting pressures for the lowly 9mm. 357 SIG is nearly 40k max.
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September 28, 2012, 10:49 AM | #27 | ||
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357 Sig was designed by Sig. Again chambered by others but its a Sig cartridge design and originally produced for them them by? the 45 GAP was designed for and or at the auspices of glock. It is chambered almost exclusively by glock. Ergo, its their ego cartridge. After all, the famous firm of glock can't not have their own cartridge because S&W does and Sig does. Note that glock now refuses to put name "Sig" on the 357 caliber guns they chamber for though 357 Sig is the correct designation. Ditto for the 40 S&W. the 45GAP is a glock boutique cartridge by any definition and it says 45GAP on the chambering designation. Quote:
It was purely my total ignorance that glock had come out with their boutique cartridge that led me to buy a box I thought was 45 ACP and to shoot it. Call it stupidity if you will, and possibly deserved, I will leave each to decide for themselves. |
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September 28, 2012, 10:56 AM | #28 |
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I owned a 37 and liked it.
Fit me alot better than the 21. 230gr. ballistics (not +P) the same for both. |
September 28, 2012, 11:27 AM | #29 |
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I have a Glock 38 and like it fine, not sure I like it better than my 23.
The 45 GAP / G38 makes for a soft shooting combo. I've had the pistol (G38) several years and only shot a few hundered rounds through it. I'm finally ready to handload some 45 GAP, if I can get about 950 fps with a Hornady 185 XTP I'll be satisfied.
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September 28, 2012, 12:10 PM | #30 | |
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September 28, 2012, 02:37 PM | #31 |
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The moribund 45 gap was a solution to a problem that didn't exist.
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September 28, 2012, 02:47 PM | #32 |
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I am in the never fired, don't like category. However, to say I don't like the round is a bit strong. It's just that I don't like to use ammunition that isn't common because it tends to be expensive and hard to find.
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September 28, 2012, 08:41 PM | #33 |
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If a few large LE agencies hadn't accepted them really cheap from Glock, they'd all be history now.
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September 28, 2012, 08:55 PM | #34 | |
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(I like Glocks, so this isn't an attempt to slam Glock. I've had a number of them, and still have a Glock 35 and a Glock 38.)( |
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September 29, 2012, 12:08 PM | #35 |
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I already have 45ACP guns, The GAP is a good round but why add another caliber plus ammo for it is limited. I just see no reason to want it.
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September 29, 2012, 01:16 PM | #36 |
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I could not vote as well. Never fired one, have seen several as they come under the authorized section of my depts., manual. If issued I would have no problem carrying one as the gun/ammo would be provided by the dept., but would not buy one, looking more and more like the .450 Marlin, (which I also have )
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September 29, 2012, 02:27 PM | #37 |
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Don't need to have shot a 45 GAP to know I don't want to pay nearly 50 cents per practice round for one. I don't even own a 45 ACP due to ammo costs, but I'd get that before the GAP because it's significantly cheaper to shoot than the GAP.
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September 29, 2012, 03:16 PM | #38 | |
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In both of those cases, some loads are the same price as a.c.p, and in others, about 10% more. But , whether .45 acp or .45 g.a.p., it's still about $.50 a shot -- shooting .45 isn't cheap. Buying locally CAN be a problem, but I seldom do that -- local prices are just too high. The Glock 38 I shoot is the first .45 that I really enjoy shooting; it seems as soft-shooting as a 9mm, to me. Last edited by Walt Sherrill; September 29, 2012 at 04:48 PM. |
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September 30, 2012, 05:33 AM | #39 |
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I don't like Glocks and I don't reload. They don't fit my hands regardless of caliber and I don't need expensive ammo I can't even buy anywhere.
Shooting one is unlikely to change either of these factors, and if it does, it may only increase the impact of the second factor. |
September 30, 2012, 07:24 AM | #40 |
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Interesting pole. Results showing about what I had expected, lots of dislike from a lot of folks who have never fired a single round of GAP. I own a 38. I like it and feel it is a great bedroom/home security gun for both the wife and myself.
If I did not reload i would not have purchased this caliber. That said I do reload and GAP brass is easy to come by. |
October 1, 2012, 08:00 PM | #41 |
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I have a glock 45 Gap and some of you ought to try it it is amazingly accurate once you go GAP you might not go back!
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October 1, 2012, 08:48 PM | #42 |
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The .45 ACP is to the .45 GAP, as the 10mm is to .40 S&W.
The difference is the .40 S&W was adopted by the FBI. At the same time, the 10mm wasn't an established catridge. The .45 GAP has an uphill battle, since the .45 ACP is an accepted standard. It's a valid concept, otherwise the .40 S&W wouldn't be so popular. Truth is, those looking for more power on a 9mm frame will mostly likely do what the police do and select the .40 S&W. Too bad, I'm more a 10mm guy, but the .45 GAP probably deserves to be more popular. |
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