Originally Posted by
harter66
The 38 and 9mm w/in their primes are so close it doesn't matter, the real decision is 5,6,8,10,13,15 or 20.
This touches on what the older gents were trying to push off on us. My wife was shooting her .357mag (trying out both .38spcl, .38 +P, and .357mag loads) along side her 9mm, and the gents assured her (who is a double distinguished expert pistol shooter) that she should shoot the .38spcl because the 9mm is "underpowered". In not so many words, the shooters were saying that the 9mm is so underpowered that having 5 shots of .38spcl is better than having 9rnds of 9mm, which was the root of my interest in this conversation. Again, I could NOT convince these older shooters that the 9mm had AS MUCH IF NOT MORE energy than the .38spcl, and apparently some people on here don't want to listen to the facts either.
My wife ACTUALLY usually carries the .357mag revolver now for the simple fact that it's a DA with no safety.