Lets settle this once and for all...

What is the better round?

  • 9mm

    Votes: 245 63.8%

  • .40

    Votes: 139 36.2%
  • Total voters
    384
curtmg said:
45 ACP, FTW. [/thread]
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[thread] 12ga in close, 338LM at long range FTRW! :D

But back to the OP's question, better for whom? 40S&W can be too much round for some. Others have no problem with .357mag, 10mm, 44mag, etc... Whatever you're most comfortable with, that is the best for you.
 
For this new guy, it's all 9mm.


For no other reason than I do not own a .40 (yet). Anything in the hand is better than anything in someone else's hand/store/box/safe.
 
So if you buy .40 magazines in order to stuff them with 9mm bullets in order to get beyond the ten round bs, which do you vote for?
 
9mm 124gr
because i can shoot :)
allso the recovery time is faster, so more round down range faster.
This is all based on a standard combat handguns, like BHP, glock, sig 226 92f ect, not a svi,sti race gun.
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K.I.S.S. Whatever one hits the indented target is the best!!! Hands down


.38 spl. was the best gun for me...whenever I pulled it out the hoopla always stopped and I never had to fire a shot (Thank God...Whew!).
 
First choice for me would be .45 just because of the 1911 (a 9mm/.40 just seems wrong), but I think I'd go for a 9mm as second choice due to cost and controllability.
 
curtmg said:
Using proper self-defense ammunition, the 9mm doesn't lose nearly as much ground as the fans of larger rounds would have you believe. I love my 45's, but wouldn't feel handi-capped with a 9mm. I'd probably shoot with pinkie's sticking out, however :nest:
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ROFLMAO - and you'd be correct in doing so!

Given a choice, I'd pick .45 over a .40 or 9mm any day of the week. But I chose .40 since .45 isn't available.

I don't need a high capacity magazine, I'm a damn fine shot. I can consistently put 7 out of 8 in a 6" circle at 50 yards. 8 out of 8 at 25 yards. I have to close my eyes to miss at distances under 25 yards. I suspect if you need a high capacity magazine, you're not spending enough time at the range.

Regardless, the poll was a little bit unclear as to what basis to choose between the two calibres. Is this based on cost or effectiveness? If comparing both, there is no "right" answer, only opinions.
 
For putting holes in paper, 9mm cause it's cheaper.

For anything else, pick one, because both will hurt like a mofo whatever you are shooting at.
 
As mentioned already, of the two choices, with no context of "best for WHAT?"... there is little to choose between them.

.40 is very fashionable in law enforcement as a defensive round, since the FBI "proved" that 9mm is pointless. Apparently all the people who have died from 9mm wounds should come back to life now. Oh, and Glock gets to sell a bunch of new pistols throughout the 1990s to government agencies....

Are you shooting paper for fun? Then go .22LR.

I like centrefire, and I am set up to reload, so I choose .45ACP for my pistols... The brass lasts longer in the lower pressure round.

If we are actually talking about putting handgun projectiles into nasty people, then either 9 or 40 are fine - Bullet placement matters most, but there is also the absolute random possibility of a bullet in a body doing all sorts of weird things, including NOT stopping the bad guy. Regardless of caliber: Fire, then evaluate, then fire again if necessary, then again, if necessary.

.40, IMHO, was an unnecessary marketing item, like WSSM rifle cartridges, and Iphones - Somebody just wants to sell you something new!
 
The .40 S&W was developed to fix a non-existent problem. The problem with 9mm duty firearms was not the cartridge, it was the choice of ammo that was available to LE end users at the time. Modern ballistics research has shown time and time again that when high quality modern hollow-point ammunition is used, there is very little difference (if any at all in real world practice) between the effectiveness of 9mm and .40 S&W.

So that said, .45 ACP is still superior to both of them, so this whole argument is moot... :p ;) :D
 
9mm makes more sense ALL AROUND.
cheaper - can shoot more
smaller/lighter - more capacity, less money to ship, can carry more ammo etc
 
Hunters know that rifle/bullet effectivness is about 95% shot palcement.

Or, phrased another way, it takes a huge gun to compensate for a bullet that missed the boilerroom.

So, the answer to the questions "Whichever one you can shoot the best." I have a number of 40's and 9mms and if I ranked them, most of the most accurate would be 9mm.
 
Ganderite said:
Hunters know that rifle/bullet effectivness is about 95% shot palcement.

Or, phrased another way, it takes a huge gun to compensate for a bullet that missed the boilerroom.

So, the answer to the questions "Whichever one you can shoot the best." I have a number of 40's and 9mms and if I ranked them, most of the most accurate would be 9mm.
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All joking aside, this is actually the only correct answer. Everything else is a distant second place to being able to actually put the bullets where you want (or need) them to go...
 
I was forced to vote before reading the articles.
I concur on Chevrolet/Ford argument.
I chose .40 because it was initially unclear what was being asked. I thought of the three .40 cal guns I own and then considered the lack of 9mm in my collection.
To be fair 40S+W,40-60 Marlin and 40-65 Winchester don't really count in this argument I believe.
 
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