Lets talk about .40 S&W and why it sucks.
I'll start:
>undersized 10mm wannabe
>modern 9mm JHP and .45 make it useless
Fuck .40
Christian Parker
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Jace Wood
We should all carry 22Magnum
Brayden Robinson
It doesn't suck, it's just not great for what you get.
Gabriel Martinez
Why do so many police departments carry it? Just general cop retardation?
Hudson Moore
You mean 5.56?
Connor Richardson
Long story short:
1. the feds shilled it hard after a bad shooting in the 80s involving 9mm.
2. .40 actually was better at one point in time, particularly in terms of post barrier performance.
LEAs have been moving away from it in increasing numbers as time goes on.
Angel Parker
That’s 5.7, fren
Nathaniel Morales
Eh. If I had to carry FMJ I'd choose a .40 over 9mm
With modern hollowpoints I carry 9mm
.40 is fine. Esp if you're a cheapass who doesn't buy defensive ammo.
Henry Thompson
40 short and weak!
Jackson Carter
Regarding 1: feds pretended that the disaster that was Miami-Dade was due to their cartridges and not due to generally being completely incompetent on every level of the engagement.
Xavier Smith
I love .40 for the sole reason that Jow Forums gets asshurt for no reason about it
Hudson Hill
Eh, eh. I don't have any particular animosity towards 40 S&W. If I was the owner of a .40 S&W, I think the .357 SIG would interest me. Utilizes the same 40S&W magazines (replace follower with a .357 SIG one), and a barrel conversion, and maybe a slightly stronger recoil spring. This is from BBTI, all from 4" barrels.
9mm
147gr - 951 (295 ft lbs)
125gr +P - 1,226 (417 ft lbs)
40 S&W
135gr - 1,350 (546 ft lbs)
180gr - 1,022 (418 ft lbs)
357 SIG
115gr - 1,491 (568 ft lbs)
125gr - 1,468 (598 ft lbs)
I'm not going to go out and buy .40S&W/.357 SIG, I have a few 10mm handguns and a Silencerco Maxim 9 to get, and that's about it for handguns. But if you already have a 40 S&W, .357 SIG might be something you want to check out if you haven't already.
Samuel Price
.40 is far from useless, and it will still hit harder and penetrate better than 9mm with the appropriate loads. Preferring 9mm is one thing, shitting on .40 because it has suddenly become the trendy thing to do makes you a fucking retard though.
Bentley Smith
>and maybe a slightly stronger recoil spring
I've heard that despite the noise and flash of .357 SIG that .40 can actually be harder on guns, not sure how true that is though. Being able to utilize both calibers in the same gun using the same mags is a definite point in .40's favor though.
Joseph Moore
yeah man I like .40's and glocks suck too
Colton Johnson
>swishers and welfare
>skittles and watermelon
Jeremiah Wright
>>modern 9mm JHP and .45 make it useless
that's like saying the glock 26 and the glock 17 make the glock 19 useless
Jonathan Cox
What are you so excited about?
Liam Peterson
Frankly this. It has slightly better performance than 9 in a few different things and the capacity difference isn’t huge. It’s not the best round but it’s more than capable.
Matthew Robinson
>.40 Sora no Woto
Pretty based desu.
Aaron Ramirez
Cheaper than 10 and fits in my 10mm 1911.
Great for range days, not much else.
Jayden Foster
Jayden James
This triggers the non .40 owners
Oliver Gutierrez
.40 haters are pink boys and dupes of the conspiracy. They will never have true slack.
Hudson Ross
It should be removed from the gene pool and all guns should be converted to 9mm or 10 millionmeter
Thomas Young
I do
Adam Hall
I guarantee the majority of people that own pistols in .40s&w own Glocks.
Hudson Perry
Nato 9mm is 396 ft lbs
Mason Bailey
Civilian SAAMI standard 9mm is loaded at about 35,000 psi vs NATO which is 36,500. NATO could be considered +p.
Liam Hill
No it didn't.
Blake Murphy
Everything is worth it to piss elitist, pretentious Jow Forumsfags off
Jack Smith
40% of 40.cal Glock owners are gay
Josiah Rodriguez
Why would you list 147 grain the least common and the least powerful 115 gr at 1150 is 337
Wyatt Wood
Ive never understood how the rising tide of “modern advacements” hasn’t raised the ships of **all** similar calibers?
Lucas Carter
It's not shitting on, it's just the truth. .40 has barely any ballistic advantage over 9mm, snaps considerably higher, and 9mm platforms are a better investment because they are vastly more reliable - . There is a surfeit of data, .40s last less than half the round count of equivalent 9mms.
If you want to shoot 10mm, do it, .40 is alright but unquestionably a suboptimal choice
Tyler Perry
Imagine being this angry about a handgun caliber on an Indinesian wakeboarding forum.
Anthony Fisher
>There is a surfeit of data
Nice source faggot, James Yeager videos don't count
Thomas Bell
shit calibre for cops and morons.
Hudson Fisher
it comes from the theory that smaller/weaker calibers have the most to gain from those advancements thus narrowing the gap from more powerful rounds.
David Morales
Josiah Gomez
But 100% of gays own a 40. Glock
Levi Richardson
Fuck yeah, what's the heaviest bullet you can reasonably plink out of your revolver?
Jason Williams
I love my Springfield XD .40 gen 1 even though it is currently broken
Thomas Gray
Fuck .40 sw
Lincoln Richardson
this unironically
Liam Morales
>being this new