also, when bh209 came out people were saying that it was going to revive the .45 market. I think that the opposite is true; being pogressive, it shoots heavy bullets well enough to close the trajectory difference between the two. Granted, all of my info is second or third hand, but I read a report where a .50 shooting a 245gr barnes was averaging 2100fps, whereas a .45 shooting a 200gr sst was getting 2200fps. Based on those numbers, the difference in drop at 200 yards was only about an inch, but the .50 had considerably more power. I like the idea of a .45 though. I really think the best thing for .45's would be to get it into an existing bullet range (hopefully rifle) by chaning the twist and sabots available