And now for something completely different.....Guns and calibers I don't really care for...
Let us start with the 45 auto....and the 1911....
and I KNOW I'm gonna get BURNED AT THE STAKE for this one....BUT...
The 45 ACP......firstly, we've had airplanes that fly faster than THAT projectile SINCE THE 1950s!!!!!
Need I say more? No, but I will because there is SO MUCH MORE (or actually LESS for the 45 auto)...
Let's start with muzzle energy (according to ALL my reloading manuals)...
Not bullet speed or length or what gun...just energy from the powder charge....
The 45 Auto has TWICE the energy of the 9mm..YEAH!!!! ....OH WAIT....that's like saying that something has twice the energy of a
PUSH BROOM.... LOL, but pretty much...
My own anecdote using my 45 auto barrel in my interchangeable EAA Witness.....
with my own HOT loaded ammo..(I always load towards the upper end of recommended charges)...
I had an old "ol school" 34" CRT T.V. that I was getting rid of,
I took it out back on my property and set it up, and from about 20 feet, I fired....the bullet bounced off leaving not a crack, just a little smudge of lead...
Thank goodness the ricochet didn't hit me, but than again, I accounted the angle to make sure that of there was a ricochet...SOP...
Anyway..45 ACP...pretty weak.....
AND YES...I've read the story about the Army/Military having trouble with the then issued 38s not stopping the tribe that was hopped up on drugs or religion and the 45 worked better...so please don't try to justify the "value" of the 45 ACP by posting links to those stories....
Thanks...
Now to the pistol that was designed to shoot the 45 Auto round.....
(and I can't throw a dead cat without hitting an ad in my inbox about the 1911 pistol....
The 1911 Semi-Auto Pistol....
GRRRRRR....
I don't like them, they are too heavy, too bulky, too ugly...they only hold, what 8 rounds???
of what..45 AUTO????
THAT bounces off of T.V screens and tempered glass back windows of 1972 AMC Gremlins...
And are going for $800.00 to $3000.00.......
Someone somewhere is smoking crack.....my opinion
I just don't get the mania....
Sorry!!!
Me likes BIG calibers, just in case I haven't mentioned that before....
I have a few more that I don't care for but I'm out of time....
So PLEASE tell us all of YOUR guns/calibers that YOU don't care for.....
And I will have a few more too....