Ammunition retailer Lucky Gunner has done extensive ballistic gel testing based on the FBI testing procedure. The best performing 9mm loads achieve an expanded diameter of 0. The expanded diameter of the best. There is little to no noticeable difference in the wound tracks between premium line law Auto enforcement projectiles from 9mm Luger through the. As stated above, the FBI has found that most of their study participants performed better with 9mm than larger calibers.
With modern hollow points reducing the gap in terms of penetration and bullet diameter once expanded , most people are probably better off opting for 9mm for self-defense.
Larger bullets and cartridges, unfortunately, mean fewer rounds can fit in similarly sized magazines. For example, the 9mm Glock 17 has a magazine capacity of 17 rounds, whereas the comparable.
The differences in magazine capacity can be even more meaningful when comparing compact and subcompact pistols. The difference between 9mm and less common calibers can, however, still be significant when buying the most inexpensive available practice ammo. The most important thing to consider when choosing a caliber is what you need from it.
Making sure a caliber is sufficiently powerful for your needs supersedes other criteria to consider. There are many firearms chambered in. With what feels like essentially no recoil,. There are handgun calibers between.
They they serve limited purposes and are far more costly than. Ballistic tests performed by Lucky Gunner show that few. Loads that did hit the bullet penetration sweet spot often had a poor expanded diameter. As far as positives,. For starters, pretty much all non-disabled adult shooters should easily be able to handle it. It hits the sweet spots in terms of strong performance and limited recoil.
Though it may feel like a bit much to brand new shooters, the vast majority of people should be able to handle shooting a pistol chambered in 9mm with some practice. In my experience, all of my male friends had no issues learning to shoot 9mm handguns with reasonable accuracy within 10 yards on their first day. There are obviously some exceptions to this. For example, my mother struggles to shoot this caliber using a lightweight compact pistol, though she's not an experienced shooter.
Some smaller, older, weaker, or disabled people may also have issues with it. As the earlier table showed, 9mm is also the cheapest ammo of those considered sufficient for defense. This should hopefully allow you to spend more time practicing with your firearm and improving your skills. When discussing 9mm pistol ammo, we're technically referring to 9X19mm Parabellum rounds.
It's also commonly referred to as 9mm Luger, named after its designer, Georg Luger. If you're at the gun shop or range, you can simply refer to it as "nine millimeter" and they'll know what you mean. Check out the best 9mm pistols and the best 9mm ammo. Perhaps it's a loud minority, but gun enthusiasts seem to LOVE.
It's clear visually that the. With this size comes increased damage to anything in its path. Personally, I believe that magazine capacity is of greater importance for defense, especially if you were ever attacked by multiple people though this scenario is extremely unlikely.
You can always fit more 9mm rounds into a similarly sized magazine than. Please note that you can NOT actually use ammunition other than what your firearm is intended to use. The point is that similarly sized pistols and their magazines can fit more rounds if they use a smaller caliber.
The FBI seems to echo this sentiment, summarizing , "9mm Luger offers higher magazine capacities, less recoil, lower cost both in ammunition and wear on the weapons and higher functional reliability rates in FBI weapons ," when testing different calibers.
Having said all of that, if you want to shoot a pistol chambered in. Many individuals will have little to no problems handling a handgun of this caliber. However, I would not recommend getting the average person started by shooting this caliber, especially those who are hesitant to shoot for the first time. Here's our list of the best. They began testing 9mm and. This allowed it to fit within their medium-frame 9mm handguns, while maintaining the ballistic performance of the 10mm.
The FBI used the. Today the. This results in the two causing very similar recoil , all other things being equal.
Like with 9mm,. There's a lot of debate whether. While some enthusiasts will disagree, I believe it's the the smallest caliber that's reasonable to use for this purpose. An independent study by Greg Ellifritz found that it actually strongly outperformed larger calibers when he analyzed real world incident reports. It's important to note that there were a limited number of incidents involving.
With how well. According to the NRA,. This makes it perfect for those with limited strength to be able to handle, while still being effective. With the size of. Find the best. At this point it should be clear,. The only thing that should concern anyone when choosing a semi-auto handgun caliber just for plinking is price.
The cheaper the ammo, the more bang for your buck literally. The graph above shows that the. Now we get into the meat of our semi-auto handgun caliber discussion.
Compared to revolvers, semi-autos as a launching platform are almost always going to be the better picks when considering getting concealable firearms for self defense. Our semi-auto handgun caliber lists a total of 17 different cartridges for just this purpose. That is 17 out of the 52 handgun calibers on our list which comprises the majority of semi-auto cartridges in this analysis.
If for nothing else, a bullet with too much muzzle energy will be more difficult to shoot accurately and rapidly. It is closely trailed by the. If you want the latest and quite possibly the greatest for CCW, consider the. It has low recoil, more muzzle energy than a. The graph above shows the two.
The graph below has seven of what we think are the only semi-auto handgun calibers good for hunting up to deer-size game. The 10mm is the most affordable semi-auto handgun cartridge for medium game. Again, cheaper ammo means more practice, and more practice means more venison on the table for less. Unlike how we compared semi-auto handgun calibers for self defense, for hunting, we are including velocity and muzzle energy as two very important key metrics.
This is because of the longer distances where a hunter must take a shot as opposed to 5- to yards in typical self defense situations. As far as muzzle energy, the. We only have five semi-auto handgun calibers on our list for hunting large game. The graph below compares them on per-round cost. Being the eternal cheapskate that I am, even if the. Again, not surprising considering how and why the round was developed.
We included both caliber rimfire rounds again, because as mentioned earlier, there are just a lot of semi-auto handguns and revolvers chambered for those two. While in general, revolvers can only accept rimmed cartridges, some revolvers have a cylinder recess for moon clips out of the box, and moon clips allow for rimless cartridges to be chambered in appropriate-caliber revolvers. As with semi-auto plinking calibers, we only want to consider price when shopping around for revolver plinking rounds.
I myself, being a revolver enthusiast, would feel kind of undergunned if I were to carry a. Round per round, the. What it has going for it is the fact that all. These are some of the smallest all-steel magnum revolvers on the market. And the. As with varmint small caliber specifications for semi-auto handguns, the.
Moving on…. Whereas with semi-auto handgun calibers, the only real contender for varmint is the. It also happens to be the fastest bullet in our list bar none. For these two reasons, anyone dead serious about becoming the most bad-ass handgun-toting varmint exterminator should really look into getting a Taurus Tracker M17, a medium-frame revolver similar to the Model and comes in 6- or 8. The revolver calibers below are the only three that I think will be great for hunting deer up to a hundred yards away.
The graph below shows, again, that the venerable. And looking at the ballistic performance graph below, the hottest. We have a list of some of the best revolvers chambered for the. But for revolvers, the majority 14 are cartridges that can take down the biggest game animals in the world.
Why is that?
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