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Old 01-25-2011, 02:20 PM
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I question if there is really much difference between a 9mm, .40, .45 at all.

Really a .1" size difference is a bit, but energy wise we can load them all to be kind of equivalent can't we? A smaller lighter bullet can be forced to travel faster and result in a similar energy level. We don't worry about overspeeding a bullet until we reach 4,000 fps and above, so a 9mm can cook out of the barrel I would think at 1400 fps pretty easily. Wouldn't the limiting factor be amount of recoil and barrel strength?

And in the end, won't each one of them poke a hole in a person? And isn't that the end result we are looking for?

I think these calibers are so close we are splitting hairs. Compare any of these to a shotgun slug, a .22 short, or a 300 Win Mag. and now we could talk about significant differences.
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