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Shoot a little steel, try some on some pins, just shoot paper and restock with the ball I get for practice. I think I have a couple hundred others on the shelf too
Is the .40S&W not a thing any more? Would you buy a .40 pistol today?
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Bought a few 40 cal sigs over the last 6 months, and now I want a G23.4.
Still buying and shooting 40 and happy to do so over more 9mm gear.
Still buying and shooting 40 and happy to do so over more 9mm gear.
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I keep an eye out for a Police trade in at a good price but were i to buy new I'd probably put a 10mm ahead of it.
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What are you guy's thoughts on what the late James Yeager said about the .40S&W cartridge beating up the pistols chambered in it. He said that there aren't any pistols in this caliber that have seen or will see over 50,000 rds. I have shot .40 since 1996 and I know they are hard recoiling and they do get wear. My G22 will get the usually wear marks/ peening like all G22's do around the mid-way portion of the slide rails and then they will stop showing anymore wear.
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1993 .40 adopter. Still carry it. Carry 9’s too.
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James had a lot of great information to pass along. His views on the 40 were not always, right. This is the same guy who asserted 40 was a high pressure round. Higher pressure round than 9mm. He also stated he knew people within SAAMI who would corroborated that it was higher pressure than 9mm. 🤣 He also forgot there were guns specifically made for the 40, like the HK USP, S&W M&P, Steyr M series, and a couple of others. All of which can achieve his so called round count threshold. Not to mention a few others that weren't but could/can accomplish that. He also stated anyone who had even shot 50,000 rounds of 40 would be someone he would "know" and thus be "famous". I suspect there are several within the GT community that have fired that many rounds of 40 and didn't know him and vice versa.
All that said, it's a shame he's gone. No matter how you felt about him he was both a friend of and a staunch 2A supporter.
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There must be at least ten threads in GT on the .40. Why people still use it, does anyone still have one, is it still viable...
Today the .40 can be had in all flavors. Light loads, heavy loads, super sonic, subsonic, hollow point, FMJ...
Here is one of my favorite responses on the subject;
"With modern technology the 9mm is a very effective round."
"With modern technology, so is the .40."
Today the .40 can be had in all flavors. Light loads, heavy loads, super sonic, subsonic, hollow point, FMJ...
Here is one of my favorite responses on the subject;
"With modern technology the 9mm is a very effective round."
"With modern technology, so is the .40."
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Or build one.......
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I keep some .40 uppers on hand for my 9mm guns, in case 9mm gets hard to come by again. But I won't buy another .40 pistol.
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Higher pressure or not, the .40 does increase slide velocity and is harder on the gun. Same PSI, but there is more of that square inch with just as much pressure driving back. But like you said, there are some .40 cal pistols specifically designed to handle it. If I were going to buy a .40 cal pistol for serious use, my first choice would be an HK USP 40, followed by the HK P30. Those don't give up any durability/reliability to a 9mm. I know from both personal observation and institutional data that in Glocks (at least pre-Gen 5), the .40 cals did wear and break parts faster than their 9mm or low-pressure .45 counterparts. I would be interested to see how Gen 5 .40's hold up in large institutional use at high round counts, but I don't see any US LE institutions buying .40 cal Gen 5s. Most are trading in for 9mm Gen 5s. Brazilian police are using Gen 5 .40s, but not sure how we could get useful institutional data from them.
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Problem is I never see a used for a good price. Then again I never go into gun stores because I'll end up buying one or four guns I have no need for.
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It’s one I no longer have so unfortunately I don’t remember the model but it’s a Zero Tolerance knife, maybe 0462 or 0562.
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When I worked at a gun store, they stopped taking .40s in trade because the ones they already had were gathering dust as they didn't move. It was like at the end of the 2016 election and people started trading entry level ar15s in and they stopped taking trades of those.
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If you were a person who needs a handgun that lives in a rural to semi rural area. You’re not a gun person but need one do it all pistol. The .40 is an excellent choice. My personal collection includes .45, .40 and 9mm. I carry the .40 almost all the time. The 180 Grain JHP is a proven round and despite popular myths, easy to control.
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