Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Why don't cops carry 45 colts?

You're missing the point. The 40S&W was good enough 30 years ago, so if the 9mm can do the same job with less recoil and more capacity, why not use it instead? Just like hardly anyone carries 44 Magnums for people defense. It isn't needed. Or, 30 years ago, most hunters used various 30 calibers for whitetail, now you see plenty of 243s and 260s and even 223s. Why, because the new bullet technology has made them feasible. Why deal with recoil if you don't have to?
Even your user name is an example. 20 years ago, the most popular bear defense handguns were 44 mags. Look how many have gone to 10mms.

.45 Colt or Colt 45?

Schlitz.

Not enough ammo....................why didn't they get some of those "Hollywood Specials".............you know, the Colt 45 Peacemakers that would shoot 16 times without having to reload.

the weight mite be why . with all the stuff on their belt the weight would drive me nuts. a cell phone & a 12ft tape measure is to much for me

Because most cops cannot shoot!

Chick cops...

Matt Dillon never missed. And he never had to double tap the bad guy.

Some still do. Wife and I always watch "Live PD" whenever it's on, I notice a 1911 every so often being carried by an officer. One city in California, Stockton maybe, most are using the 1911 along with the Sheriff of Pahrump, NV (Nye County?).

I doubt if the 1911 will ever die.

The Governor.

Something is wrong with your ammo. Whenever I've shot bowling pins with .45 Colt factory ammo, they fly off the table. With 9mms they fall over but sometimes don't leave the table.

Lol...1911's suck to carry day in, day out. Not mention 3 or 4 magazine pouches on a Sam Brown that already has 2 sets of cuffs, a radio, a taser, an asp and whatever else their department requires.

TV badasses and drug store lawmen can get away with barbeque rigs, but it's not what a working cop uses.

I love 1911's, but they're not the best tool in the box.

I'd forgotten all about the Bull. The Pizza Den used to have dollar pitchers on Monday afternoon.

That phrase was coined before people started confusing rifles with handguns.




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UNLESS his adversary is taking cover behind a wagon wheel.

You can say that again.

Your reasoning is flawed. One, full power 10mm has been avalible since it's introduction, part of the reason the fbi initially found it to be too powerful, leading to the eventual development of the .40. And fmj and Hardcast bullets are still the same as they've always been. The 10mm's increased popularity is due to the types of guns it is now chambered in, not any measurable improvements in ammunition. The full power loadings avalible today simply mimic the original Norma loads.

Two, sub .30 caliber, high velocity deer cartridges go back over 100 years at least to the .250 Savage. A .22, .24, .25, .26 cup and core bullet killed deer just as dead 100 years ago as it does today. Premium boutique bullets are generally not necessary to take deer sized game in small calibers.

Three, suggesting that using .40S&W in a defensive handgun is in anyway comparable to using a .44 Magnum in the same circumstance is laughable and reeks of a strawman argument. No knowledgeable individual has ever suggested that full house .44 Magnum is necessary or suitable for human defense. That's like trying to insert a watermelon into an apples to apples debate.

Four, the same technology improvements that make modern Plus P+ 9mm almost as effective as .40S&W from 30 years ago has also improved modern .40S&W. Resulting in the relative differences between the two still virtually unchanged. The argument can be made that modern 9mm is now "good enough", and if anyone wishes to stake their life on the bare minimum of just good enough, then that is up for them to decide.

A 9mm is a "bare minimum"? The rest of your "argument" isn't worth responding to until you take a class in Reading Comprehension.

Actually, the 10mm was not too "powerful". It was too powerful for the FBI to pass qualifications, and it was designed for them. Hence, the .40mm "short" (S&W) was developed.