Oh man, caliber debates. This shit is way more complicated than just X is more powerful than Y
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Willy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The caliber one seems silly. A 9mm is .35 inches but has about the same power of a .45 but a .357 is more powerful than both
Glifted@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Donkter@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nah the sig has way more feats if you read the lore. Honestly I think the power scaling is all over the place. Magnums are on fraud watch tbh haven’t done shit for feats in years.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Yeah, this rule really irked me.
This is… its an older meme, motivational poster format, wouldn’t surprise me at all if it was made by a gung ho Gulf War vet either before or not long after Iraq 2 Electric Boogaloo commenced, drenched in Americana gun culture pride.
There are plently of pistol rounds other than .45 ACP that are quite good in combat scenarios, most at this point would probably agree that having more 9mm over less .45 is preferable, otherwise 2011s wouldn’t even be a thing.
Also: its less common, but uh… 5.7?
5.7 is actually more likely to pen body armor, than a 9mm or a .45, if your scenario is you’re fighting against other people with body armor.
And you can make a double stack magazine with it.
And there are a fair number of Police, Intelligence, Military organizations that use the FiveSeven regularly.
And… there are now even a growing number of hunters who will tell you that some kind of pistol in 5.7 is their backup, in case of something big ambushing them.
357 is of course very powerful, but they’re also huge rounds in comparison to .45 or 9m… kinda hard to fit into a semi-auto pistol.
Unless you wanna talk about the .357 SIG.
… but we don’t talk about the .357 SIG …
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And a .308 would smoke them all. It was specifying if you see smaller caliber, assume rifle.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s not at all what it’s specifying.
It’s pro-45ACP / anti-9mm boomer gun shit.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh, yeah you’re right. I read that wrong.
archonet@lemy.lol 1 day ago
it’s just the usual “hurr durr anything smaller than .45 is for girls” bullshit. Usually espoused by the sort of ancient old farts who remember carrying one in WWII, Korea or Vietnam and who dislike the general shift to smaller bullets going faster because they don’t understand terminal ballistics.