- Location
- Vancouver Island
Tell us how the cliploader is, it looks pretty cool, especially since you shoot so much.
9mm VS .45
- Thread starter Patrickshot
- Start date
- Location
- Port Perry/Toronto
The most expensive part of reloading .45 is the brass. Once you get your brass, than it's not much more expensive to shoot than 9mm.
Brass is the cheapest part, it lasts forever once you have it. Bullets are the kicker, especially jacketted ones, for glockers, such as myself. When you find a deal, you tend to buy several large heavy boxes.
Last I paid for brass was 500 for $60, off the EE, used them 5 times each so far.
Last I paid for bullets was 1000 for $109, only get to use those once.
Powder, $28 lb, Universal clays 6.0gr, 1166 loads per lb.
Primers about 27-30 per thousand.
Bullet .109
powder .024
primer .030
total per load 16.3 cents, if you can use lead bullets, or cast your own, it's even cheaper, but I don't, so I use a lot of 22lr, and just a few hundred rounds 45acp (400 last time out)
+1 to that. My G21 with the AA is good fun and cheap to boot. I warm up with the .22 and switch to .45...
9mm is a decent round but as Jerry pointed out above if you do it right .45 is not really that much more. If it wasn't for the P7 I would ditch the 9 and stay with .40 (10mm!) and .45 exclusively.
- Location
- Port Perry/Toronto
I found a dealer that sells once fired .45 for 88/1000. I'd also be using lead bullets, which I think were running 40/500. The powder I get is around $25/lbs. Same as you for primers. Anyhow I calcuated it all out, and I used a conservative figure of 5 reloads per casing and came up with a figure of $0.17/ round. My 9mm cost me $0.15/round.
I own both, but I favor the 45. Cost to reload the 45 is not more because the slower 45 can use cast bullets and the 9 mm uses jacketed bullets. Cast bullets I can pick up locally for cheaper than jacketed 9 mm. But then again I could slow the 9 mm down enough to use cast lead bullets too.
Store ammo is more for the 45 but reloads even it out so it don't make much difference. Shoot what you like; one or both. .
Store ammo is more for the 45 but reloads even it out so it don't make much difference. Shoot what you like; one or both. .
Unfortunately, 32 is prohib, with the exception of certain olympic target shooting guns. Which just goes to show how ridiculous our laws are.
for a novice shooter i'd go with the 9mm. less recoil, lower cost of feeding will make more enjoyable experiences. i love .45acp but for a beginner it is hard to beat the 9mm.
fwiw. i think sig sauer offers a a new piece with interchangeable parts to pick your caliber, not positive but someone here knows better than me.
Hmm. Kinda depends on what you mean by "quiet" and how the building is built. In my place, where I can hear sounds from the neighbours on a pretty regular basis, they would definitely hear an airgun being fired. It wouldn't be disturbingly loud by any means, but they would know I was firing it.
If you live in a place where you never hear your neighbours, and can fire it away from connecting walls, you might not be heard.
- Location
- Keswick, Ontario
9MM vs 45 cost have been covered all ready in this thread. All I have to add is the advice I was given here so many times.
Shoot as much as you can within your budget.
That sounds obvious, but it's something most people miss in the rush and excitement of figuring out what to buy first when you have to be "cash conscious" lol
What I mean is don't spend too much time worrying about calibers etc. Get one and get shooting. If you are like the rest of us, you will end up owning most of the calibers in the first 18 months anyway
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