Where the 9mm carbine falls short (in my opinion) is the inability to penetrate IIIA body armor. Maybe a few of the faster loads will do it, but not the common ball ammo.
I'm bringing this thread back up because I wondered about this. What do you think happened when I fired one of Mackay_Sagebrush's Predator Penatrators at body armor?
I had run this test previously with the same target array but without the body armor, using Buffalo Bore hard cast (same bullet per MS, at about the same velocity per my chrono), and the round stopped after denting the second piece of 22 gauge steel.
This doesn't change my view that this is a nifty little home defense and general dinking-around gun.
I will have to try this with an Xtreme Penetrator. It looks like I can get one more shot out of the armor side panel on the undamaged half.
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