Because i like more than one flavor of icecream

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Originally posted by sns3guppy:
.38 Super, .357 Sig...ballistically equivalent.

You can hot-up .38 Super more, to really push it, but no need, and it's available today in .357 Sig with same weights and velocities, in a lot more firearms, and factory loaded on the shelf.

And fewer rounds. 17 + 1 in the Glock. 39 + 1 with a Kriss Vector mag extension.

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
And chicks dig it.

Because there is not a .55 ACP.

Ugh. If only SIG did a .50GI...

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
Ugh. If only SIG did a .50GI...

Um, okay. Now there is one even I don't understand. Makes even less sense than the 45 GAP. An answer to the question that nobody asked.

To say a cartridge must make sense is like saying you have to need a gun to own one. After all, look at all of the .45ACPs there are out there.

John Dillinger carried one. That is a good endorsement for some folks.

I thought it was the .45 AARP!

Because Palmetto State Armory sold me a delightful .45ACP Shield for $225 after rebate, and I read the ammo test data at Lucky Gunner. The expansion on modern .45ACP HP ammo is amazing. The .45ACP Shield is very easy to shoot well, even better than the 9MM Shield for me.

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Originally posted by Hay2bale:
Because Palmetto State Armory sold me a delightful .45ACP Shield for $225 after rebate, and I read the ammo test data at Lucky Gunner. The expansion on modern .45ACP HP ammo is amazing. The .45ACP Shield is very easy to shoot well, even better than the 9MM Shield for me.

I bought one of those. You would have to be crazy not to at that price.

If there were less types of ammo used, the price of ammo would drop. More different types of ammo = higher prices.

I want a .45 in Gyrojet.

That would be tits.

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Originally posted by SSAreGreat:
If there were less types of ammo used, the price of ammo would drop. More different types of ammo = higher prices.

Not necessarily, and in fact, almost certainly, not.

Corner the market by making only one product available and everybody must buy that product. Presently, there are choices.

.45 is more expensive to buy and to reload; the components are more expensive. Twice the metal in the 230 grain projectile as in the 115 gn. 9mm.

Why not reduce to only one model of car? Only one item of food to eat? Only one degree, only one job, only one...

Because we're human and life's not like that.

I've got .38, 9mm, .357 Sig, .40, .41 magnum, .44 magnum, 10mm, .45 acp, .45 Colt, etc, on my shelves, and it's not boosting your prices one bit. I reload for a lot of it, which put my ammunition consumption outside the principle of everyone buying the same, as it doesn't come through the factory. What I carry concealed, will always be more expensive.

A good deal of what get shot at the range, in the desert, in the mountains, and off-range isn't even made in the US, and doesn't fall in line with the notion that everyone shooting the same would change the price. Foreign cartridges don't work to the same economic model, and we're not the only market, so that theory's out.

Higher prices aren't a consequence of variety, and in fact it may be said that variety is competition which works to constrain price runaway, in context of supply and demand, of course. Boutique or little-used cartridges will always be higher. We did see 9mm shortages not so long ago, and .40 was cheaper than 9mm, though more were shooting 9mm. There are more than two sides to the coin.

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Originally posted by cas:

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.45 ACP...why wold someone choose it over 9mm...

They're a heterosexual male?



The 9mm is a great cartridge for very small guns, very small woman, small children or shooting people in the back of the head.

Bwhahahaha

Because in the words of a kid, perhaps six years old, at one gun show table yesterday (with his dad and siblings); "Hey dad, look at this one. It's the coolest one that's here." He was touching the butt of a Colt Government Model, Series 70, in .45. Only $879.

I have found it more accurate and better for precision work. My experience

hmmmm....as a guy that has carried many handguns in the last 20 years...why not?

I love the 1911 platform and have tons of .45 mags...and I love the commander length light weight versions.

I am intrigued with the thought of a commander in 357sig or even a 5" model

That being said I prefer 9mm...in either a G19 or BHP

I will reload .45 but I can’t be bothered to reload a 9. 9 is inexpensive but there is cost savings to reload .45

1911 trigger, do I need to say more? If you don’t know what I’m talking about then you just don’t know what you don’t know.

I don’t choose one over the other. I have and shoot both for they both have a purpose.

susinctly; it lets out more blood and shoves in m0re crud.,