And they do not damage or hurt the barrel any worse than jacketed bullets. At the slow velocities we use, barrel leading is rarely a problem when using a good quality hard cast bullet. Depending on the bullet hardness, serious leading doesn’t occur until you push it past 12- 1500 FPS.

A bullet will NOT drop through the barrel like a marble down a drain pipe, in a modern firearm. In a modern firearm with rifling, the bullet is a little larger than the barrel diameter from land to land, so it won’t simply fall through the barrel.

How “tight” does a bullet have to be in a barrel to make it function properly and take advantage of the rifling? In general, the bullet should be groove diameter. For example, a . 30 caliber barrel is .

They are most often caused by negligence in the powder loading process (insufficient or no powder load), or a failure of the primer to ignite the powder at all. In the case of no gunpowder in the cartridge, the primer, when struck, produces just enough force to push the bullet into the barrel but no further.

Technically speaking bullets are actually ever so slightly bigger than the barrel or bore. The bullet will squeeze down the barrel during firing which interestingly is the main reason the barrels get so hot during firing.

With a good modern defensive ammo, the 9mm is just as powerful as any . 45, just in different ways. That is some nice expansion from the 9mm ammo, but let us not forget that the same developments in HP ammo that allowed 9mm to catch up to . 45 ACP FMJ also allowed .

40 round, which supposedly combines the best features of the . 45 ACP and the 9mm. However, others say that the lowly . 22 LR has the best stopping power, since it stays in the target’s body and bounces around, shredding arteries and punching holes in internal organs.

45-caliber round is the bigger bullet, so it has the “knock down power” to neutralize any adversary with one shot; while pistols that fire 9mm rounds are generally more accurate and can carry more bullets. Where a bullet hits the human body is also a major factor on whether it inflicts a mortal wound.

A . 45 ACP will knock a man down typically with one shot. There’s a reason it’s called a man stopper. His initial momentum may carry him forward a couple of steps, but he’s going down.

Would you feel safe using a 45 ACP for protection against a Bear if you were fishing up North where the Bears are big? no. in short: basically bear spray was 90% effective, handguns 84%, long guns 76% (interesting), but 56% of firearm users were still injured or killed by the bear.

45 Colt is a great round and can be loaded up to kill most any bear. But it’s generally agreed that you need a larger frame gun than a New Vaquero for those loads.

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For the first component, a 9mm has potential killing power out to several hundred yards. As a practical matter, an average shooter can only consistently (say at least 50% of the time) make a lethal hit at somewhere less than 30 yards.

25 yards would be about the max range I would try to take a deer, with my . 45acp. I am sure you already know that shot placement is key. Good luck and good hunting!

out to 50 yards, making it a perfectly viable choice for deer, black bear and hogs. There are heavier bullets available, like the Grizzly 335-grain hard-cast flat nose at 1,175 fps, which will hit like the hammer of the gods, or the Buffalo Bore 325-grain cast load at 1,325 fps, for a bone-smashing 1,267 ft. -lbs.

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