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9mm Sub 2000 and my Glock 19 share the same magazines ... I reload 147 grain jacketed hollow points which will knock either a scumbag or a White Tail on their butts. Why make simple complicated?
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9mm Sub 2000 and my Glock 19 share the same magazines ... I reload 147 grain jacketed hollow points which will knock either a scumbag or a White Tail on their butts. Why make simple complicated?
Yes Joe, In fact I have 2 of them (2 19's, 2 26's also) To me it make sense to carry twice the ammunition for which ever gun I will be shooting in magazines that fit every gun I own. I realize 9mm is considered by some, not to be a long range shell, but I can hit anything that's as large as a man with every gun I own out to 100 yards. After that, yeah, I'm under gunned. Best part of the Sub2K's; folded they carry in a regular back pack with room for as many Glock mags as I can hoist. For an old guy like me 5 or 6 "Happy Sticks" is the perfect load-out.
Sorry guys, but a 9mm just doesn't rise to a rifle caliber.Great, thanks to you the Sub 2000 is back on my list!
I'm also a big fan of 9mm.
Sorry guys, but a 9mm just doesn't rise to a rifle caliber.
While a 9mm carbine can be all the things you state, I just don't think it belongs in "your favorite rifle calibers". When I hiked I would only carry one firearm for the reasons of weight. Under 100 yards a 9mm carbine should work since the carbine would have about a 200 feet per second advantage over a pistol. In the long run, it's whatever you enjoy shooting— have fun.Not even under 100 yards? I don't know enough about ballistics, I just like the idea of having a handy rifle that accepts the same magazines as my sidearm for hiking, camping, etc.
No wonder Texas is getting overrun with wild pigs! If you shot one with that 9mm you would really piss him off.I'm reminded of the Crocodile Dundee line... "that's not a knife" .... "this is a knife"....
My favorite rifle caliber is 147 grain jacketed 9mm loaded +P... Cycles Sub2K and G19 equally well.
While a 9mm carbine can be all the things you state, I just don't think it belongs in "your favorite rifle calibers". When I hiked I would only carry one firearm for the reasons of weight. Under 100 yards a 9mm carbine should work since the carbine would have about a 200 feet per second advantage over a pistol. In the long run, it's whatever you enjoy shooting— have fun.
No wonder Texas is getting overrun with wild pigs! If you shot one with that 9mm you would really piss him off.
My .358-caliber elephant gun. It's my own design: What the .35 Whelen would look like if it was built on a magnum case. 250-grain bullets atop 60-some grains of medium-rate powder is a genuine kick in the head. Will kill anything on dry land short of elephant, rhino and hippo. I'll never hunt in Africa, so I'm just guessing it won't kill these species. Maybe it will; I have no idea. I built it to get 4,000 foot-pounds of muzzle energy out of it. I can get that KE by propelling that 250-grain bullet to 2684 fps. The recoil is vicious. I'm done with it for the day by about a dozen rounds. I like it so much because it's only good for about 300 yards. I doubt it has much power left beyond that distance. It's a hunting rifle (0.005" neck clearance and we're not using MatchKing bullets), so I'm not tearing myself up in looking for quarter-minute groups from it. Five bullets into an eight-inch circle at 300 yards is good enough to kill a huge elk, moose or caribou. What more could you want in a nine-pound rifle?
The rifle is built on a stainless Remington M700 action, a stainless 24-inch "hunting contour" Lilja barrel, its gunsmith-massaged stock trigger (a Timney is in the offing) and a Boyd's lefthand stock for a righthand action. Has a Vortex 4-12X scope on it, the name of which I cannot now recall. My friend JR said it was a beautiful rifle when he first saw it. It is if a simple, no-nonsense rifle lights your board. It is simple, but it's elegant as well. It's well-executed, but not gaudy. I'm happy with it, and that's all that matters to me.
I also like the .223 Remington. It's cheap to reload and doesn't offer-up much in the recoil department. I have a great deal of components on-hand to do the reloading, so buying factory ammo is something I will most likely never have to do.
Really? Well, I'll be jiggered. Let me check my reloading manual for the case length of the .350 Remington Magnum...Your .358 Whelen on a Magnum case has been around for over forty years. It is known as the .350 Remington Magnum.