Pistol with flattest trajectory?

.440 Cor-bon (necked down .50AE)

240 grain .429 caliber (same as .44mag/spl) @ 1900fps
I'm not sure how fast a sabboted .224 or .243 cal would be in the cartidge, but it'd be fast, no doubt.
 
Remington used to have a bolt-action pistol that fired .221 Fireball or some cartridge like that. That's got to have a flat trajectory.
 
I have 30-06 rounds with the sabot and 22 cal bullets. Don't know if you can buy them now. I am thinking Rem. used to make them (green & yellow boxes). I have at least 60 and maybe 100 that have been well stored over the years. I have to play with them again.
 
If we're talking mainstream cartridges, it would have to go to the 357 Sig.
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The Sig is fast but a plain old .22 Mag beats it handily. Ruger convertible with a 9.5" barrel.....

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This Freedom Arms Model 97 in 224-32 FA shoots a 40 grain bullet at around 2200 feet per second.

 
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Go big or go home. 460S&W mag. 200gr @ 2400fps zeroed at 200yrds its only 4in high at 150yrds and 4in low at 250yrds. Don't get much flatter than that in a hand gun.
 
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If we're talking mainstream cartridges, it would have to go to the 357 Sig.
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The Sig is fast but a plain old .22 Mag beats it handily. Ruger convertible with a 9.5" barrel.....
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I should have said mainstream centerfire pistol rounds. In my mind (and I am sure not everyone would agree), I was thinking of . . .

- 380 ACP
- 9 mm
- 38 Spl
- 357 Sig
- 357 mag
- 40 S&W
- 10 mm
- 44 mag (maybe mainstream)
- 45 ACP

Pretty much calibers that Glock chambers (except for the revolver rounds).

But, dang - that 22 mag flies from that 9.5" barrel!
 
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