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45’s as a category, without bringing up their most obvious issue for prospective users: These are bulky, chunky, thick and heavy pistols. You cannot honestly assess any of these guns, or even double stack. Elephant in the Waistband, er, Room: The Comfort Issue This makes training and practice more expensive, often for little practical benefit.Īnother issue is that even the slimmest of these guns may be a bit too big for those with small hands to easily operate there are only so many ways around the simple physics problem of packing big bullets into confined spaces before you leave human ergonomics completely behind. 45 ACP ammo is expensive, significantly more than 9mm. 45 versions are often more expensive, easily explained by their typically larger dimensions and greater mass. 45s on this list do suffer from a couple of inescapable drawbacks compared to smaller calibers, though.

You’ll notice I did not feature any 1911 style pistols: that is deliberate, as with few (expensive) exceptions I have not encountered any reliable enough over the long run to declare them worthy of anything but competition use.Īll of the. 45, go with my blessing, so long as you get a good one.

So as far as I am concerned, if you absolutely must have a. All of the guns on this list will do all off the above in spades and then some. Why throw the baby out with the bath water?Īll I care about as a trainer and consultant, as far as weapon and ammo selection by a client is concerned, is that it is reliable, of adequate ballistic performance and helps them shoot their best. 45 ACP is entirely adequateĪs a defensive round. Instructive: whatever users think about it, or the 9mm, they have 45 ACP, but aside from being done toĭeath, it is useless, and not what I would consider productive or

45 ACP is their cartridge of choice, and damn the torpedoes If you want to talk pure numbers, it looks like the 9mm has the most advantages all the way around, at least with technology where it is at today.īut simply stated, to adherents of the Path of the. Have been vocal about in person and all over the internet, andĬonsidering that all recent studies point toward terminal performanceīetween pistol rounds being damn near neck and neck when modern Question, especially in light of my preference for the 9mm which I

Elephant in the Waistband, er, Room: The Comfort Issue.

I’ll be providing my list of what I believe to be the top tierĭouble-stack. 45 ACP pistols today, which can combine more than ample capacity and modestly sized grips, making them more than suitable for defensive use, even concealed carry. That and the fact that misses will likely occur and multiple follow-up shots will be necessary and suddenly the historical standard of 7 or 8 rounds may seem inadequate.Īll that has changed now with the latest generation double stack. 45 goodness.Ĭapacity is an important consideration for a defensive gun, considering multiple attackers is an increasingly common reality for citizens today. 45 truly obsolete.īut if there is one flaw you could lay at the feet of this beloved elder statesman of pistol rounds, it would be the same thing that has provided much of its strength: it is very big! And this means that magazine capacity in guns chambered for it has always taken a hit.Īt least, it took a hit if you did not want to be coping with a comically oversized grip resulting from a big double stack magazine stuffed to bursting with. Whatever new advancements in bullet technology have taken place, none of them have made the. 45 ACP is a solid defensive cartridge in all regards, and has an edge over many of its smaller competitors when deep penetration and maximizing a wound channel irrespective of a failure to expand is desired. Still delivers on this classic doctrine today.

Were young: hurl a big chunk of lead at the recipient. Years old, this classic round employed then and employs now a recipeįor effectiveness and success that has changed little since firearms It’s more American than two bald eagles out on a date on the 4 th of July. If there is one quintessentially American pistol cartridge, it is this one. For them, the premier cartridge the reigning champ and undisputed king of calibers for semi-auto pistols is the venerable, legendary. The 9mm may be the current “ideal” cartridge for self-defense, but that fact counts for very little with a contingent of American shooters.