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- From: n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Best stopping power in handguns?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.194422.29122@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 01:04:54 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Western Washington University
- Lines: 22
- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
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- #The "hot" (+P, +P+) 9x19mm loads were developed for use in
- #modern guns that could tolerate the higher pressures because
- #at SAAMI pressures 9mm Luger did not seem to be doing a good
-
- +P and +P+ are within SAAMI.
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- #Full-load 10mm may actually have worse average results in
- #self-defense shooting than 45 ACP, when bullet styles are
- #similar. On the other hand there can be situations where
- #the additional penetration is useful.
-
- If the sectional densities are made similar to a .45
- the .40 cals will do better than if they are over heavy. A 145
- gr 10mm would be more analogous to a 185 gr .45 than the 170-180
- grain slugs are, and would certianly expand in the 1200-1300 fps
- range. They are just starting to make things like this, I believe.
- I wondered why the Silvertip wasn't 155 gr rather than 175 gr.
-
- JD
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