simonrichter
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These days, you read a lot about +P ammunition, with new guns being advertised as rated for, and forum questions about whether older guns are suitable or not.
Call it a somewhat too straightforward approach, but with the plethora of ammunition types around I really wonder why one would want still more... In other words: If .380 is to weak for me, I can easily find me a 9mm of comparable compact dimensions today, with no obvious need for a .380 +P version; same for .38 and .357, 9mm and .357 SIG and so forth.
In do understand that overpressure ammunition has first been proposed for military handguns in order to bridge a certain performance gap without the need of changing the existing inventories, yet for the individual user who can choose between literally dozens of calibers (and at least several even in the same performance range), it does not make sense to me...
Call it a somewhat too straightforward approach, but with the plethora of ammunition types around I really wonder why one would want still more... In other words: If .380 is to weak for me, I can easily find me a 9mm of comparable compact dimensions today, with no obvious need for a .380 +P version; same for .38 and .357, 9mm and .357 SIG and so forth.
In do understand that overpressure ammunition has first been proposed for military handguns in order to bridge a certain performance gap without the need of changing the existing inventories, yet for the individual user who can choose between literally dozens of calibers (and at least several even in the same performance range), it does not make sense to me...