At this point, if you cast bullets 45 ACP might actually be cheaper to shoot than 9.
All pistol calibers are essentially $0.60 a shot these days new, large pistol primers are easier and potentially cheaper to get than the small ones due to demand, and powder charges in the two rounds are about identical.
The biggest different though is pressure. 45ACP as a low pressure cartridge has FAR longer brass life than 9mm. You can basically shoot it until the necks crack from work hardening, especially in a fully supported chamber.
Also, you can use much cheaper lead alloys for bullets in 45ACP -- again due to the lower pressure. The alloying elements used for hardening, while only a couple of percent by mass, generally account for more than half the cost of a projectile.
With 45ACP you can get away with the bare minimum tin content that you need anyway for mold fill out. With 9mm Para you are going to need to get your hands on some antimony/aresenic bearing alloy, and with the rise of lead free wheel weights that is getting annoyingly expensive.
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Have we finally come full circle? Have people started adding 3-points to guns ironically?
Say what you will about 1911's, it's the modern striker fired that are known for negligent discharge on holstering. Yes, I have long since switching to carrying one, but you have to admit that the Army inspired idiot proofing of the old horse pistol does have certain upsides.
I would wager that far more 9mm foot shots have occurred than 45 ACP foot shots. Yes, all the platforms above come in both calibers, but on the hole it's retards glawking themselves with 9's.
Creating an uncensorable base is not being afraid to speak up. It doesn't imply that it is the only place we talk, it implies that we need a space in which to freely organize.
Utilizing cover is not cowardice.
MS in psych. Worked behind gun counter.
I hope you didn't just done dox yourself there. That's a small set intersection.
Or a huge ass suppressor.
This is common, but the old guys that can put all 8 in one ragged hole are not unheard of either. Those dudes have earned the right to bitch about modern degeneracy some. They may not understand true autism, but they aren't wrong about average testicle size not measuring up today.
Unpopular opinion:
There is nothing wrong with liking 1911's. It's a historically important firearm with nice lines, ergos, balance and a sweet sweet trigger. If you wanted a solid mag fed carry gun then either this or a Browning High Power were probably the only reasonable choices during the first half of the 20th century.
Likewise there is nothing wrong with 45 ACP. It's a low pressure round that is easy on guns and brass, easy to reload, has a satisfying recoil impulse, and is a solid service caliber. Prior to the invention of reliable hollow points, reliable double stack magazines, and NATO adoption of 9x19 creating overwhelming economy of scale it was at least arguably the best of the major service calibers.
Where the Fuddism comes into play is where you let these perfectly legitimate strengths run away with your brain. The reality is that the guy in the stall next to you with a hunnit' dolla' hi-point is as well armed as you are, is rocking a deeper magazine, probably experiences fewer feed problems, and can afford to put two thousand rounds down range with the cash he saved by buying a gun that was engineered with modern manufacturing in mind.
Yeah, everything you just described is just saturated fat present in meats. The mainstream party line is that is bad (or at least worse than the monounsaturated stuff), but I'm skeptical about that and if you are going full carnivore you implicitly are as well.
Trans fat is what you get when you take vegetable oil, crank it up to many atmospheres of pressure, and then start bubbling hydrogen through it. It doesn't occur in nature at all, except in tiny traces. It's basically an industrial byproduct that, as it turns out, is not particularly good for you. Your metabolism doesn't know what the hell to do with it. The numbers are scary -- something like a gram or two a day to double heart attack risk.
Once upon a time, they decided "unsaturated is better than saturated", so they had us replace saturated fat (ie lard) with trans fat (ie crisco) because hey, at least it's unsaturated.
I'd replace the maga hat with quad nods. I have nothing against MAGA, it's just not a thing that makes sense here.
Urban or rural?
If you are in the concrete jungle go lo profile. If you are innawoods go overt.
A little basic field craft couldn't hurt. Watching Texans dying like flies last week from a little sub freezing weather was physically painful. Americans need a refresher in the fine art of not freezing to death.
There are no bad fats
In nature. There are no bad fats in nature.
Stay the fuck away from trans fats though. That shit is literally worse than smoking. The data is some of the most robust out there. Not even the partial 0.4g portions that the FDA lets food companies hide by rounding down.
The traces that occur that in meat and milk are fine, but don't put hydrogenated anything into your body if you can avoid it.
RDA for Vitamin D is bullshit. Add a zero.
Oh, I've got a pair of jamteens in 45. Still my favorite gun to shoot to this day.
The G19 actually makes me a little sad. It's the disposable bic pen of the shooting world.
Consider that polymer flexing and or breaking limits the forces applied to the gun it's attached to. Kind of like a mechanical fuse. Light mounts cost less than rifles, and lights that don't blink are less likely to kill you than guns that don't bang.
If you are moving fast and get that light hung up on a concrete wall, you WANT the mount to break.
Pick a streamlight or surefire that fits your needs from a size perspective. Stop worrying about lumens. Specs are mostly a lie anyway -- the Chinese manufacturers especially just cut and paste the emitter specs.
The Chinese lights are more "feature rich" because their circuitry is more complex and they spend less time testing it.
I still search the interwebs for justification to go back to carrying a jamteen instead of a G19.
I just can't justify it technically for serious use, as much as I love the 1911.
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If a mag ban is coming you need to be printing magazines.
If you most comply (like for a carry weapon) it probably makes sense to just go back to single stack 45's. The '94 AWB and mag ban is the main reason the 1911 is still around.
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Indeed I do good chap. Look right here, it says "shall", all legal and official that is.
On a serious note, does anyone know where I can find drawings of the metal glock parts? I've got access to a mill and a lathe, but I am having trouble finding blueprints and I don't have a Gen3 Glock upper to measure directly.
If really is. Squatting and deadlifting especially -- and the benefits of this extend to real life.
I expected that years of heavy squatting would build muscle and that I would be giving up flexibility for that. What actually happened was the exact opposite. I didn't pack on more than about 10-15 pounds of additional meat, I got more flexible than I have ever been, and more coordinated too.
It sounds weird, but it hit me at some point how much easier it is to bend over and pick a pen up off the ground now, or to tie my shoes. You gain balance, flexibility and fine control of large muscle groups without realizing it. This has applications for shooting as well -- basically every weird position is easier to hold and maintain than it used to be.
I lost it all during the pandemic. Gyms closed and I let that be an excuse to get lazy. I feel like I've aged ten years in the last 9 months. Every little day to day task got harder. Just getting back into it now. It has really illustrated just how life changing resistance training can be though.
Honestly, I have to give this one to the 9mm guys. Energy transfer is more a product of projectile design.
That's the real reason modern projectile design has closed the gap between the various service calibers, even though it has been applied to all of them. With really good (or at least equally good) projectiles, performance really does start to scale linearly with kinetic energy. 45 still has the edge there, but no where near as much edge as it had back when frontal area of an unexpanded projectile was our main metric for lethality.