From the time I got into shooting, to the time i got my gun permit. I have believed the 9mm the to be the best caliber in my opinion. Due to the capacity, light recoil, inexpensive on practice ammo compared to other calibers, and the fact 9mm is pretty much everywhere in the world. It is my favorite caliber. However I have been toying around with the idea of getting a different caliber in a gun for home defense and occasional carry, just for that little extra punch.
I still plan to carry and shoot the 9mm, but would like to have at least one other gun in a bigger caliber. Namely 40 Smith & Wesson. Being the guns in both calibers are about the same size, and the cost of ammo for 40S&W, is still cheaper then 45acp. Or here it is anyway.
But I want to know what exactly does 40. do that's better then 9mm? I know the obvious would be, it's a bigger round there for could probably be harder hitting. But ballistic wise, how much worse can a 40. do to a human target and or human tissue/organs?
Please don't think I am a psycho looking for trouble by asking this. Because I am not. I am being serious in asking these questions. I can't seem to find any info online that speaks about the 40's performance as a self defense round.
So far the only info I have gotten is data regarding it's velocity, bullet weights, and how many grains of gun powder are in the cartridges. So any help will be greatly appreciated.
p.s - Please don't try to persuade me to other calibers like 45acp or 357 Sig. Reason being for both being more expensive, and because I am pretty much set on 40 cal as being a bigger round then 9mm. Because like I said before, the ammo is still somewhat cheaper then 45acp or 357 Sig, and because the 40 rounds can fit into guns the same size as 9mm.
I still plan to carry and shoot the 9mm, but would like to have at least one other gun in a bigger caliber. Namely 40 Smith & Wesson. Being the guns in both calibers are about the same size, and the cost of ammo for 40S&W, is still cheaper then 45acp. Or here it is anyway.
But I want to know what exactly does 40. do that's better then 9mm? I know the obvious would be, it's a bigger round there for could probably be harder hitting. But ballistic wise, how much worse can a 40. do to a human target and or human tissue/organs?
Please don't think I am a psycho looking for trouble by asking this. Because I am not. I am being serious in asking these questions. I can't seem to find any info online that speaks about the 40's performance as a self defense round.
So far the only info I have gotten is data regarding it's velocity, bullet weights, and how many grains of gun powder are in the cartridges. So any help will be greatly appreciated.
p.s - Please don't try to persuade me to other calibers like 45acp or 357 Sig. Reason being for both being more expensive, and because I am pretty much set on 40 cal as being a bigger round then 9mm. Because like I said before, the ammo is still somewhat cheaper then 45acp or 357 Sig, and because the 40 rounds can fit into guns the same size as 9mm.
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