I have never really looked seriously at .45ACP as an all round caliber, target/competition work, personal defense, plinker, whatever. Indeed I have only fired one .45 caliber gun, a Sig P245 that jammed non-stop and refused to let the last round into the magazine (why are tolerances SO tight in sub-10 round magazines). The round was not the brute I expected it to be, and whilst it had a firm "shove" it was not snappy like a .40 or downright manic like the .357 Sig I tried in a HKUSPc, it was, well, reassuringly stout.
So lately I've been paying a little more attention to this tennis ball in a soda can round, but I'm always conscious of ammo costs. Fancy JHP prices don't really concern me, noone shoots more than a trial batch unless your name is Rockerfeller, nor do lead rounds attract me, I don't like the health implications if you shoot a lot of them, especially indoors no matter how good the ventiliation is. So I started looking around at plain vanilla FMJ rounds in any 160-230 grain weight offering, and I discover that they average 80% higher per box than 9mm, say $7 versus maybe $12-$13. Now that's a lot if you shoot 4 boxes a session once a week. You're looking at anywhere upto $100 extra per month, and that has to be a consideration.
So am I missing anything, or is .45ACP a reloaders dream, and an off the shelf buyers angel of debt ?
Mike H
So lately I've been paying a little more attention to this tennis ball in a soda can round, but I'm always conscious of ammo costs. Fancy JHP prices don't really concern me, noone shoots more than a trial batch unless your name is Rockerfeller, nor do lead rounds attract me, I don't like the health implications if you shoot a lot of them, especially indoors no matter how good the ventiliation is. So I started looking around at plain vanilla FMJ rounds in any 160-230 grain weight offering, and I discover that they average 80% higher per box than 9mm, say $7 versus maybe $12-$13. Now that's a lot if you shoot 4 boxes a session once a week. You're looking at anywhere upto $100 extra per month, and that has to be a consideration.
So am I missing anything, or is .45ACP a reloaders dream, and an off the shelf buyers angel of debt ?
Mike H