Satchmoeddie
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Handgun owners love to follow trends, and gun makers are always trying to set or at least be on top of the next one. Dirty Harry elevated the price of the S&W 29 from $259 to more than twice that, almost overnight. Most people bought their .44 Magnum, fired it, then, either sold it, or stuck it in a drawer and kept using .357 or .38 Special. The whole stopping power debate, is a bunch of lunacy. What are we stopping, and what is it wearing? 9x19mm penetrated a steel pot helmet 100 yards farther away than a .45ACP, in US Army testing. If I need to engage anything 125 yards away, please, let me at least use a pistol caliber carbine, preferably a rifle. Having owned one, Glock's 10mm pistols are nothing I would really consider, again, but I have had an H&K USP 40 reamed out to 10mm. Otherwise, I have been more than content to stick with 9mm Parabellum while everyone was dumping it for .40 S&W. I was gleefully buying up Hi Powers chambered in 9mm while their previous owners were salivating over their new Practical .40 S&W, and now I am buying the unwanted .40 S&Ws, at discounted prices. It lets me go buy a 10mm, or two, or a .357, or a forgotten 1980s Gates Super Magnum, or whatever someone will cut me a really good deal on. Worst case scenario, I will shoot someone 6x in the face with a .25ACP, or a .32ACP but I will almost always have something that spits some kind of lead. I don't do leadless projectiles that fall apart. 10mm? It's Shot Show. It's a huge sales pitch. As I type, the police helicopter is orbiting a couple blocks south, while a loudspeaker blares, "Suspect who ran from the car, you are surrounded, we are going to send in the dog." After 15 minutes of this, it's obvious, "They have no clue where this guy is, and by now he could be hiding in my yard or be north of me, or who knows. I have a Hi Power next to me. I started shooting semi autos with the Hi Power, over 40 years ago. I can shoot it with my eyes closed, meaning, "I do not need any sight picture to hit an orange at 10 or 20 yards, and I have no issues about shooting more than once!" Bonded JHPs, not super dedicated to one brand. Speer has one of the worst groupings of what I have shot, from a bench rest. It's still more than acceptable.
Handgun owners love to follow trends, and gun makers are always trying to set or at least be on top of the next one. Dirty Harry elevated the price of the S&W 29 from $259 to more than twice that, almost overnight. Most people bought their .44 Magnum, fired it, then, either sold it, or stuck it in a drawer and kept using .357 or .38 Special. The whole stopping power debate, is a bunch of lunacy. What are we stopping, and what is it wearing? 9x19mm penetrated a steel pot helmet 100 yards farther away than a .45ACP, in US Army testing. If I need to engage anything 125 yards away, please, let me at least use a pistol caliber carbine, preferably a rifle. Having owned one, Glock's 10mm pistols are nothing I would really consider, again, but I have had an H&K USP 40 reamed out to 10mm. Otherwise, I have been more than content to stick with 9mm Parabellum while everyone was dumping it for .40 S&W. I was gleefully buying up Hi Powers chambered in 9mm while their previous owners were salivating over their new Practical .40 S&W, and now I am buying the unwanted .40 S&Ws, at discounted prices. It lets me go buy a 10mm, or two, or a .357, or a forgotten 1980s Gates Super Magnum, or whatever someone will cut me a really good deal on. Worst case scenario, I will shoot someone 6x in the face with a .25ACP, or a .32ACP but I will almost always have something that spits some kind of lead. I don't do leadless projectiles that fall apart. 10mm? It's Shot Show. It's a huge sales pitch. As I type, the police helicopter is orbiting a couple blocks south, while a loudspeaker blares, "Suspect who ran from the car, you are surrounded, we are going to send in the dog." After 15 minutes of this, it's obvious, "They have no clue where this guy is, and by now he could be hiding in my yard or be north of me, or who knows. I have a Hi Power next to me. I started shooting semi autos with the Hi Power, over 40 years ago. I can shoot it with my eyes closed, meaning, "I do not need any sight picture to hit an orange at 10 or 20 yards, and I have no issues about shooting more than once!" Bonded JHPs, not super dedicated to one brand. Speer has one of the worst groupings of what I have shot, from a bench rest. It's still more than acceptable.