I'm confused about bullets

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mike Irwin:


There USED to be Silvertips, but I think they have been discontinued. [/quote]

No, they are still in production, and quite available via catalog supply houses like Natchez Shooters Supply.


<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>I got a .41 Mag. (S&W Model 58) a few months ago, and I'm falling in love with the freaking thing.
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The 58 is very easy to fall in love with!

As to why the .41 Mag never caught on widely, here are a few thoughts. One, until lately, the only guns chambered for the cartridge were N-frame (or other large-frame) revolvers. The big, heavy revolvers are just plainly less popular than the lighter, more graceful K-frame size guns.

Two, maybe it was a marketing failure. The reduced loading should have been called ".41 Police" or ".41 Special," and it would probably have sold like hotcakes. Recall that the thinking was to have a duty load of a 210 grain LSWC at around 900 fps, and the full power magnum load as a hunting tool. The .41 duty load is not too far off from a 180 grain .40 S&W cartridge at 950 fps, which we know today is quite popular. But maybe the "magnum" name and availability of mainly full-powered loads scared off those looking for a self-defense cartridge.

Maybe something along the lines of an L-frame sized revolver chambered in both ".41 Special" and .41 Magnum may just have caught on.
 
There are, I believe, two schools of thought.

The first is that while some rounds may have more energy, they simply aren't as efficient in transferring said energy to the target. A .357 may have less energy than a .41, but if the .357 dumps all the energy into the target and the .41 drills through and wastes energy going beyond the target, then the .357 is more efficient.

The other school is that rounds with such high recoil are less effective because the shooters are less effective. The recoil induces a flinch which they can't overcome because they are intimidated by the recoil, resulting in less training.

Personally, I think it's a combination of the two: more efficient rounds in the hands of less-intimidated shooters.
 
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