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Lebell · 09-02-2003, 12:56 AM

Truthfully, a 9mm loaded with hydra-shoks or gold dots will be just fine as a defensive round.

If you look at the penetration and expansion of some different makes of 9mm and .40 caliber, the numbers are not that far different:

http://www.firearmstactical.com/briefs.htm

What swings it for me is that 9mm is MUCH cheaper to practice with.

09-02-2003, 12:56 AM	#8 (permalink)
Lebell Cracking the Whip Location: Sexymama's arms...	Truthfully, a 9mm loaded with hydra-shoks or gold dots will be just fine as a defensive round. If you look at the penetration and expansion of some different makes of 9mm and .40 caliber, the numbers are not that far different: http://www.firearmstactical.com/briefs.htm What swings it for me is that 9mm is MUCH cheaper to practice with. __________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis The ONLY sponsors we have are YOU! Please Donate!