9mm vs .45 Finally answered
- Thread starter Izzi115
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Cone_Skid_Cone
Regular
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- Grande Prairie
I'd be curious to see which handgun is the most accurate at long ranges.. perhaps we are on the right track to see a 1911 hit a target at 600 yards upon further researh.
heh. pretty funny
Love how they mix Imperial and Metric.
4.48 inches barrel length. Shouldn't that be 4 and 12/25ths of an inch?
Seriously. What's with Imperial, anyway? Metric is so much more elegant.
Human scale numbers. Much more elegant then the French (Metric) system.
Why not? The 45/70 was tested at 2 miles and penetration was awesome!
Shooter1of38
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
You honestly think the Imperial system is superior??? You do realize that "human scale" changes with advancements in society like better diet and healthcare, so the scale should be a sliding one. Not the brightest option nor the most efficient. Metric is a decimal based system using "tens" which is far simpler to work with than say 12 inches to a foot. The US is the only industrialized nation not bright enough to adopt the metric system, that's called a clue.
TW25B
Cocked&Locked
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- S. Ontario
I spent 10 years working in a plant as a tool and die maker that was pure metric. I left that job to a place that was pure imperial....since then every place has been a bastard blend of each...(think north american auto makers).....
WHY ANYONE would chose to work in imperial is beyond me....and if they had to, why they'd use fractional measures is even further beyond me......not to even get into Letter and Number drills.......of course then there's my Dad, also a tool maker, who worked imperial so long that he has decimal equivalents for all the above memorized down to 64's......lol
It may not necessarily be a matter of choice to work in Imperial but here is a couple of situations. I grew up in Europe, AKA all metric, all the way, then I spent a few years in a machine shop working exclusively in imperial, customers from USA and some Canadian. All machinery in Imperial, so I command both systems well. Then I switched to a pipe fitting trade. The basic construction material in the entire North America is a 2"x 4" and 4 x 8 foot sheet of plywood or drywall for that matter, all piping is denominated in inches, hydraulic data in US Gal.per min etc. There is always a metric conversion to all the data, that always turns into such weird number no one can remember. As of now, our building engineers still do not know how to use metric properly, time to time I get to look into metric building plans, all done in mm's so you end up with 4-8 digit numbers for practically anything. And here is a best one. There is nothing like working on a domestic car that has a mix of bolts and nuts of both systems. When used correctly, I don't care in which I work, just don't f...k mix them on the same product. Now, back to our line of interest, I own both, 9mm and .45, if my mags are limited to ten rounds only irrelevant of the caliber, stopping power of .45 wins.
precision_lee
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- ottawa valley
perfect placement!
