Anonymous
6/17/2025, 3:49:17 PM
No.63851653
>>63851604
Based take for dumping on Eurofags and their .32 ACP fetish and sidearm inferiority. The fact that the BHP made it into service being that prone to hammer bite, with stock grips that fat, is pretty dumb.
Also the P38 is obscenely huge for a single stack 9mm, to say nothing of the terrible DA trigger or the poorly designed decocker system that literally turns your decocker into a trigger if you use it enough. They clearly didn’t make performance the highest priority when they adopted it.
That being said, 5.56 is great. Many loadings e.g. 77 gr TMK do absolutely devastating damage while simultaneously retaining all the capacity, recoil, and weight advantages that any other 5.56 has. Larger rifle calibers like .308 etc can do even more and have their own place, but tend to fall in an area where they’re overkill/less efficient at closer ranges.
9mm doesn’t really enjoy that kind of dynamic though because no service caliber handgun round is overkill, there is always plenty of room to improve terminally and thus little such thing as ‘wasted damage’, plus handgun engagement ranges being what they are, it’s easier to train to a standard where the differences in recoil tend to be less consequential on average. It still offers benefits worth considering, but so do other calibers.
Based take for dumping on Eurofags and their .32 ACP fetish and sidearm inferiority. The fact that the BHP made it into service being that prone to hammer bite, with stock grips that fat, is pretty dumb.
Also the P38 is obscenely huge for a single stack 9mm, to say nothing of the terrible DA trigger or the poorly designed decocker system that literally turns your decocker into a trigger if you use it enough. They clearly didn’t make performance the highest priority when they adopted it.
That being said, 5.56 is great. Many loadings e.g. 77 gr TMK do absolutely devastating damage while simultaneously retaining all the capacity, recoil, and weight advantages that any other 5.56 has. Larger rifle calibers like .308 etc can do even more and have their own place, but tend to fall in an area where they’re overkill/less efficient at closer ranges.
9mm doesn’t really enjoy that kind of dynamic though because no service caliber handgun round is overkill, there is always plenty of room to improve terminally and thus little such thing as ‘wasted damage’, plus handgun engagement ranges being what they are, it’s easier to train to a standard where the differences in recoil tend to be less consequential on average. It still offers benefits worth considering, but so do other calibers.