
don't agree that a hit square to the chest with, say, a. And I'm not implying that the latter takes the place of proper bullet placement. I'm not longer amused at the silly notion that a hit in the right place with any caliber or bullet is as effective as the same hit with a better caliber using better bullets. That's why I like effective calibers with better bullet technology, and don't agree that a hit square to the chest with, say, a. How could it not?Īnd you MAY assume that the goal is to forcibly stop my assailant as quickly as possible.Īs for "with no regard to preserve your assailant's life", why would you throw that in there? I have regard for my life. My point is that a larger expanding bullet does, in many cases, cause more damage and affect quicker incapacitation.

With the caveat that I'm not an expert on human anatomy, I will say that I can't think of a case where that would be true (assuming your goal is to forcibly stop your assailant as quickly and effectively as possible, with no regard to preserve your assailant's life). the 45 Hard Ball so lets stick to these two. OK we can throw in the 44 mag or supped up 45 LC and have veloicty and math but the subjcet was 9mm HP vs. It has the diameter right out the barrel. The 45 dont care, it dont need to open up. Like stopping a slow train or a super fast bumble bee.

It it opens up you might get a 45 cal hole, but you dont have the mass to push the little bullet through the target. If a 9mm dont open up, then you have a small 9mm hole. Thats math for you, it works, on paper, but we all know in reality it total BS.
9MM VS 45 ACP ZIP
Zip up the speed and increase the KE of the Bee and it can exceed the KE of the train. When I went to the NW Traffic Institute studing accident reconstruction we showed, on paper using KE that a bubble bee, if fast enough can stop a freight train. You can come up with all kinds of KE tables to show the faster 9mm works better on paper. Go to a bowling alley, ever wonder why they use a big old slow bowling ball to knock over the pins instead a light ball, like a golf ball going a hundred miles an hour.

Yet the 45 is already the size of a good 9 HP that opens up. Never heard of a 9mm HP out preforming hard ball knocking over pins. Its not a trick bullet, its a heavy plain old hard working bullet.Įver wonder why the 45 ACP is king on bowling pin shoots. The 45 Hard Ball is heavy, and big, it not the fastest round around but it takes a bit to slow it down. I've been to enough autospies to know you can never determing what a bullet is gonna do.īut there is an old saying, THEY ALL FALL TO HARDBALL Then again it may be hot and the target may not have much clothing on and the HP may not open up at all. It may be cold, the target may have heavy clothing on and the HP may open up too soon and not penitrate.
