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November 16, 2017, 09:44 AM | #76 | ||
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In MY hands, I don't find any significant difference in recoil between the .45 and the 9mm. All of the guns I've had in both calibers seem to have the same amount of recoil to me. Yes, it varies due to size and weight of the gun, but in guns of similar size and weight, to me, the recoil is about the same. Meaning I get the same amount of muzzle rise from both the 9mm and the .45. The 9mm feels like it gets there faster, seems "snappier", but the amount of muzzle rise for me is the same. I'll accept the fact that most people find the 9mm to have less recoil, and yes, I've seen the math that explains how, despite having the same amount of energy (ft/lbs) the .45 has more momentum and therefor more recoil. But the math doesn't change what I feel when I shoot, and so, for me, the argument that the 9mm is better, because it recoils less, simply doesn't matter. I guess I'm not "most people". And, that IS an important point, I think. I understand the logic in choosing what "most people" can manage, when you are choosing arms for a group of people such as a police dept. But is that choice the best choice for you, or I, as the individuals we are??? Maybe, but maybe not.
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So the debate remains, possibly more smaller holes or fewer possibly bigger holes. |
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Thanks though, for the rest of your post as it supports my contention that it was a tactical failure, not an equipment failure.
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Looking at the dimensions, which do you think would have a greater likelihood of hitting something critical? |
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I know the bigger holes will work better than the smaller bullet that are still in the gun cause mr BG didn't wait for you to shoot 17 times and killed you.
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I believe the best possible example I can think of is the movie Pentagon Wars. That movie sums up so many similar situations I've been through in life it's almost like they scripted it from experiences I've had! Any time you get more than three people involved in a decision, it goes downhill fast. |
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Of course, I have heard the argument from people who carry .22s about how they can make 10 well placed shots so easily and I always wonder we we don't see more gunfights where the people with .22s are making 10 well placed shots. So the question is then one of whether or not the person shooting is really likely to score more smaller holes. A LOT of shootings involve on hit or less. So for a LOT of shootings, the bigger caliber would have an advantage. Carry what you will and be very proficient with it. You don't get to change your mind after the shooting starts.
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For fewer than one hit, the question is moot. No injury is sustained. But how about one? One reason that it sounds counter-intuitive to me is that police training calls for the immediate, rapid firing of several shots, and that is consistent with the teachings of civilian self defense trainers. S the fusion becomes one of how many incidents actually do involve a single hit. Another is that to stop firing willfully after one shot, the defender would have to have reason to believe that his or her first shot had been sufficient, and in a short range incident with a violent attacker closing rapidly, it would seem extremely risky to make and act on such an assumption. In the chapter on wounding mechanics In Defense of Self and Others... Issues, Facts, and Fallacies: The Realities of Law Enforcement's Use of Deadly Forceby Urey Patrick and John C. Hall, the authors state that a common reaction to a person being stuck by a bullet is--nothing--no immediate reaction. The authors go on to describe why police training prescribes the shooting of several very rapid shots at the outset. This discussion has nothing at all to do with caliber selection or such things. Rather, it is based on numerous real world observations framed in a discussion of what lawfully constitutes reasonable force in self defense, as it pertains to Fourth Amendment cases--42 USC 1983 litigation (civil claims for a deprivation of rights under color of authority. Specific to the subject of the thread, however, the authors do describe what is necessary to effect a physical stop. The do take the time to discuss why, in their opinion, a single wound from a .45 would be somewhat preferable to a single hit from a 9MM. But they go on to explain that reliance on a single hit would not be at all prudent, and to extoll the advantages of "more, deeper, bigger holes." I recommend the book. |
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The rest of the statement is unconfirmed and even the authors can only use anecdotal evidence. Without getting in a pee pee match I've seen several shootings that folded an individual very quickly after the first volley of shoots, some of those individuals ultimately lived. Quickly as in dropping like a sack of potatoez. On the other end, there are guys who took 5 rounds of 357 magnum to the chest and got a shot off with a 22 after that killed the cop who launched those 357 rounds. The effects of that 1 22 round on that cop were pretty immediate as well. At any rate, in our current culture of cell phone videos there is more evidence than ever. And a lot of individuals who take 2 to 3 rounds usually stop the fight very quickly. Of a ton of shootings I have seen either training videos on or investigated, very few involved even 7-8 rounds, much less more. That would seem to suggest that the oft-touted capacity advantage of 9mm is rarely needed. Then we go back to what is better, 7 rounds of 45 or 7 of 9mm. |
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Some number of them are in the book for reading. Again, the purpose was not to create a data set to analyze shootings, but to evaluate police shootings that had led to the filing of civil rights lawsuits; the pertinent fusion was one of whether unreasonable force (too many rounds during the attack) or unnecessary force (rounds fired after the officer should have stopped firing) had been used. Quote:
Rather, it has to do with the time between controlled shots--or as has been said, whether "those few tenths might get an extra round into the bad guy (and hopefully stop him)... or it might not." |
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I've always heard it to be akin to taking a hard kick, punch, so forth. The effect and energy of taking a bullet I similar to a blow from a hammer. People in a gunfight are usually kind of distracted, and there will be about as much effect as a physical fight..sometimes a single hard sucker punch will flatten a guy in response, an mma boxer can go on.
Being hit once, no matter how well, is not predictably going to end hostilities. You can only predictably end hostilities by just hammering the naughty one enough times to send him into shock, tear apart a lot of tissues, or cause so much pain that he just can't continue.. being shot at might be enough all by itself and there are many people who will crumple just out of fear. I don't think that there is much chance of predicting in advance who will go down in a single round, or why. Try taking down a wired tweaker, full of rage, focused and distracted,blasted with adrenaline, probably numb or so wrapped up in events that he doesn't feel the hits and the pain of the injuries don't get through the fog. He won't drop until you physically put him down. There have been thousands of soldiers who took eventually lethal wounds and still functioned until they bled out. Attack until the threat is entirely, visibly neutralized. Maybe a shot to the back if the head is wrong, but stomping on the gun hand with everything you have is reasonable. I am certainly not a lawyer or pathologist, but these things are pretty self evident, and any hunter probably follows that thought. That hunter won't let that trophy elk keep going. I don't know anyone who will drop a round into a grizzly bear and call it good, and wait until that bullet in his tuckas makes him sit down and cry.
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Some indication that there is a "lot" of the former would not be very useful at all for evaluating risk mitigation strategy. Even if more than half of the stops required only one shot, that would not be a prudent thing to bank on. Quote:
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Expert witnesses are often called upon to explain why one shot should rarely be sufficient, why a defender would likely not be able to tell if it had been sufficient, and why defenders cannot always be expected stop shooting immediately even when it might have been obvious in hindsight the whether the additional shots had been required. In police shootings that is quite likely to happen of there are any indicaopnms that a case will lead to lawsuits under 42 USC 1983. Quote:
Of course, the one prerequisite for the first category is that the person realize that he or she has been shot, and screen fiction aside, that doesn't always happen. In any event, we have a lot of evidence from multiple sources, including real world accounts of defensive incidnts, forensic analysis, and physiological studies of what it takes to effect a physical stop timely, that a single hit should not be something to rely upon than the stakes are high. |
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For just about everyone, a .45 ACP requires more time between controlled shots than a 9MM with a similar weight and balance, bore axis, and grip. Basic physics. Observe a line of shooters warming up for El Presidente drills by shooting at steel plates. That led to my realization that the shooters with the service size 9s where shooting faster than those with similar .40s, and that the few with .45s were still slower. Read this article by a former .45 user: http://www.icetraining.info/131/Keep in mind that that's not just based on the author's shooting skill. Each year, Mr. Pincus and his instructors observe large numbers of people shooting for days on end with all kinds of deferent guns. |
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To me that puts to rest the fallacy of the light load being faster on target. What we seek is consistency, we had that in the 1980's with the 357 magnum. Everyone was quick to jump on the hi cap semi bandwagon. Having been a cop when 95% of cops carried revolvers I have not seen a much of a benefit to carrying a semi auto besides it is smaller and lighter. Look at the data from pre-FBI protocol days and today and tell me that people are consistently requiring less hits to go down, you can't. What I have seen is guys tend to use what is available during the pucker factor.
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Yo TXAZ (post #24).....When I carry my Mod 2 9mm I have 49 rds on me. That's two extra 16 rd mags with the 16+1. When I carry my Mod 2 .45 I have 50 rds on me. That's the 13+1 mag with two extra 13 rd mags and one 10 rd mag with base plate that allows that one extra rd there. And the .45 set up gets carried just as easily.
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Even the top pros acknowledge that they shoot faster with lighter calibers/loadings. That is precisely the reason that the "practical" pistol sports classify pistols or alter scoring strategies based on scaled momentum figures. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/1911+.....-a0132840815 According to Rob Leatham: "...the 9mm's lighter recoil works to his advantage in those speed-based championships. The 9mm simply recovers from muzzle flip" faster than the .40 or the .45, even in the hands of the man many consider the world's best practical handgun shooter."
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With an accuracy stipulation of both shots hitting a 6 inch circle at 6-7 yards
Shooting Glock 19/23/32 with defensive ammo (+P in the 19) In my hands, the 19 was .04 (four hundredths) second quicker for averaged pairs, 2nd shot time. Despite the difference in blast and recoil impulse it had no effect on 2nd shot time with the 23/32, equivalent. In my hands, the difference in 2nd shot time between 9mm/357 Sig/40 was/is insignificant in same size pistol using defensive ammo.
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Did any of that involve a comp?
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IMO most likely that people shoot 9mm with "range ammo" when doing split times or recoil comparisons, opinion it is. Problem is, 9mm range ammo (FMJ) does not produce the same recoil as 9mm defensive ammo (+P) whereas 40 S&W 180 gr, FMJ produces the same recoil as 180 HP also true for 357 Sig; the only way to compare fairly is to use comparable ammo ex: HST for all three.
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