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March 7, 2015, 12:27 PM | #101 |
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.45 GAP and .327 Mag are pointless calibers that are going nowhere but to the obscurity bin.
.40 however, fills a niche. There was a time when people thought it would dominate the popular market, but that hasn't come true and I am confident that it never will. I personally have no use for .40. If I want a carry gun, it's 9mm. If I want a full size holstered zombie gun, it's .45. If I want a high powered pistol for hunting or longer shots, it's .357 or .44 or 10 mm.
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March 7, 2015, 12:58 PM | #102 |
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I have pistols in both 9MM and .40 S&W. I like them both. It's a matter of application and need. I don't think that the .40 cal is going away anytime soon. We should also be wary of any massive switch to 9MM for law enforcement and then have some politicians attempt to enact European-like legislation prohibiting the civilian use of so-called military calibers such as the 9MM. Remember that there was PLENTY of .40 cal on the shelves during the post-Sandy Hook panic of 2013-2014.
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March 7, 2015, 01:51 PM | #103 | |
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Correction: The full size USP was built for the 45acp. The other P229 and USP Compact were designed around the 40S&W.
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March 7, 2015, 02:10 PM | #104 | |
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March 7, 2015, 03:46 PM | #105 |
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Concerning .40 striker-fire pistols, don't forget the Steyr Family (L, M, C, and S).
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March 7, 2015, 05:32 PM | #106 | |
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Your standard 5-shot J-frame is a shot less than some of us want and there is a power/recoil issue that still plays out regularly in threads here. Some people want more than .38 special, which is about all that is comfortable for a lot of us to shoot in them. Firing full-house .357 solves the power problem but is a beast. The .38 +p ends up being the balance for a lot of people. The old .32 H&R magnum gave you an extra shot but generally fell between .38 and .38 +p in terms of power. It just wasn't enough to really stand out. I think .327 was the perfect answer for small-frame revolvers. Sadly, it was poorly launched, at the wrong time, with not enough support to gain the right kind of foothold in the market. It still has dedicated fans but we are a relatively small niche. We could have the same kind of conversation about .40 but it is my opinion that the real difference has to do with its institutional beginnings and subsequent use by agencies. If it was released the same way the .327 was released, I think it would have fallen just as flat and we wouldn't be having this conversation today. |
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March 8, 2015, 08:05 PM | #107 |
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Zombietactics, I think I have been following the thread closely; I respect your arguments and points made to date. However, you lost me on "penetration is a fail". Did I miss something? We were talking about the size of holes, and you suddenly seemed to make a pre-emptive strike on this angle.
This is important given I have read some opinions that penetration is far more important than has traditionally been acknowledged. This is very important, because even with perfect shot placement, with inadequate penetration, all is for naught. And while we are talking about what's getting shot; let's not forget about body armor, automobile glass, leather jackets, the obese, etc. |
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Going the way of the Dodo bird
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March 8, 2015, 09:54 PM | #109 |
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Let all .40's come my way, I just love them.
At age 11, we have to fight the Ruszki tanks with Molotov cocktails.
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The point - in context - being, that regarding the use of .357sig or 10mm:
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It's not like the movies. People do not typically bleed out of the entry and exit wounds, so much as they bleed into their own internal cavities. In many cases there is little external bleeding at all, or certainly not enough to account for loss of blood pressure, etc.
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The reason is......he wasn't shooting very accurately (probably due to having just been smacked in the eye). However, the truly salient fact that jumps out at you in this incident is that the caliber of the weapon mattered not at all in this confrontation. The killing shot would have killed just as certainly had it been a 9mm. |
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Yes.....well, exactly what are the chances that the 9mm would have bounced off Brown's skull?
Are there many such cases documented? I thought not. |
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Your guess is as good as anybody elses, but it's only a guess.
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These threads are hilarious. The amount of sacred cows trotted out and tarted up, threatened with slaughter, and then vehemently defended must be some kind of internet record.
Not sure anyone has really addressed one of the key reasons .40 is going to stick around (just like the other not-9mm and not-.45 cartridges): logistics. There is a whole industry infrastructure built up around producing handguns and their ammo chambered for .40 S&W. Industry support is an animal far more worth considering than a deer. (LOL! I can't believe that even came up!!!) As a few folks have said: handgun rounds have anecdotal and statistically irrelevant differences in terminal effect across calibers. Shot placement and quantity of hits are far more the indicator of 'effectiveness', in which the 9mm beats out the .40, which beats out the .45. Pretty much the only thing that the .40 does, as someone has stated, is overcome barriers. It retains far more of its energy on impact, and after defeating, common barriers such as windshields. Even cursory searches into officer involved shootings will show an incredible number of them occur during vehicle stops, and guess what there is a ton of just sitting around during vehicle stops? This is a real, meaningful advantage to the .40. Does this overcome the reduction in capacity over a 9mm? Who knows. Who cares? Folks that engage targets through barriers may choose to carry .40, while most people just carry whatever the heck they want. And the people at the pointy end (LE or .mil) that actually give a crap about this will carry what they are issued, show up with friends, and bring a long gun. Out. |
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What matters is that 40 does have strong following. Its not going to lose significant favor and vanish anytime soon. Whether or not 40 performs better/worse than 9mm is subjective and irrelevant. Type till your fingers bleed... your not going to change anyones mind, either way. Carry what you feel is right, hope you made the right choice. As long as 40 is on the shelves regularly I'll keep buying it along with more pistols that fire it... maybe even a 9 or 45 now and then too, just maybe. |
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Has every one forgotten the post Sandy Hook ammo situation?
.40 was all there was to be had for a good while. That alone is reason enough to have one. |
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As to blood loss, in terms of stopping the bad guy, it doesn't matter whether the blood is lost externally or internally. Blood sloshing around in one's body cavity does no good. But, the goal of bullet design for self defense is to promote massive tissue destruction that will result in rapid bleeding that will cause a loss of blood pressure that produces the desired (non-psychological in this case) stop. |
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March 10, 2015, 09:53 AM | #123 |
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I have seen quite a few handgun wounds up close and personal and operated on a few dozen.
In my experience, unless one knows the caliber going in, unless and until you find the projectile there is no way to accurately judge the caliber just judging by the injury pattern or degree of tissue destruction. Those handgun exit wounds I have seen were not significantly bigger than the entrance wounds, maybe 50% bigger at most. They do tend to have a bit more jagged contour. IMO unless one scores a hit on the upper central nervous system there is no physiological way to instantaneously drop an attacker. Yes, a direct hit on the heart or great vessels will likely (not invariably) be fatal, but even then the odds are good that a determined attacker will have time to shoot back at you before they drop. Lacking a direct hit on the upper CNS, heart, or great vessels, or at least a major pelvic or femoral artery, a determined attacker could probably absorb over a dozen handgun hits before they lost enough blood to drop from hypovolemic shock. During that time they could probably empty a magazine at you. Shotgun and high velocity rifle wounds are a completely different matter, obviously. |
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March 10, 2015, 05:37 PM | #125 |
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Strange...
I don't have a single .40 S&W, but have 5 10mm handguns (4 autoloaders and 1 revolver). I prefer the "flexibility" of the 10mm Auto cartridge over the capacity of the .40 S&W. (BTW, my Glock Model 20 holds plenty of ammunition, and has sufficient power to accomplish the task at hand.
It seems that the .40 S&W was conceived for the sole purpose of adding capacity to the magazines of FBI Field Agents. Let it be so. Scott |
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