Guys,
I know that this may well re-ignite the .45 vs. 9mm argument, but, can someone educate me on this. When I pin shoot at my local GC with my Taurus PT-99, I can shoot the hottest +P 115 or 124 grain bullets on the market and the lower set of pins will only fall off the target rack onto the floor if I hit them juuuust so, otherwise they just fall over and stay on the rack (not a counting shot in standard pin shoots). There's an old lady two lanes over with her husbands Colt Caveman using lead reloads of around 210gr with what he says is a relatively light load of powder and the pins are actually leaping off the rack and hitting the rubber stop mats in back, one almost bounced back on as I watched ! Now if my Tritons or Corbons have 400 - 500 ft lbs and his .45's have got maybe 350 or less, where is my 12th grade physics going wrong ??
P.S. Got laughed at on my first pin shooting comp recently when I pulled my 9mm out of my range bag.
Help my bruised ego out here.
Regards,
------------------
Mike H
I know that this may well re-ignite the .45 vs. 9mm argument, but, can someone educate me on this. When I pin shoot at my local GC with my Taurus PT-99, I can shoot the hottest +P 115 or 124 grain bullets on the market and the lower set of pins will only fall off the target rack onto the floor if I hit them juuuust so, otherwise they just fall over and stay on the rack (not a counting shot in standard pin shoots). There's an old lady two lanes over with her husbands Colt Caveman using lead reloads of around 210gr with what he says is a relatively light load of powder and the pins are actually leaping off the rack and hitting the rubber stop mats in back, one almost bounced back on as I watched ! Now if my Tritons or Corbons have 400 - 500 ft lbs and his .45's have got maybe 350 or less, where is my 12th grade physics going wrong ??
P.S. Got laughed at on my first pin shooting comp recently when I pulled my 9mm out of my range bag.
Help my bruised ego out here.
Regards,
------------------
Mike H