Anyone still .40 S&W?

[markm]

Busted out the old G22 for my every other year qualification shoot, and got sticker shock at the price of practice ammo. $0.35 per round average price for bulk. I had to pay like $0.50 for a quick LGS box to shoot.

I wouldn't guess that the 40 cal demand is that great these days. That's my tragic story for the week.

[kirkland]

Busted out the old G22 for my every other year qualification shoot, and got sticker shock at the price of practice ammo. $0.35 per round average price for bulk. I had to pay like $0.50 for a quick LGS box to shoot.

I wouldn't guess that the 40 cal demand is that great these days. That's my tragic story for the week.

Never owned one. I've owned 9mms, 45s, 38spls, 357 mags, 44 mag, 32acp, 10mm, even a 38 super. Never a 40 cal.

[tangolima]

Glock 23 here, with conversion barrels for 9mm, .357 sig, 22tcm. Handload everything I shoot. No problem at all.

-TL

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[HKGuns]

Never bothered with the 40 either, much like kirkland, I own too many calibers already. Never saw the point of messing with 40 when 9 and 45 out of auto's works just dandy.

[SteyrAUG]

Never bothered with the 40 either, much like kirkland, I own too many calibers already. Never saw the point of messing with 40 when 9 and 45 out of auto's works just dandy.

That's where I'm at. The only exotic I've got is a USP compact in .357 SIG because I bought it for my dad, because that is the one he wanted and when he passed I got it back. Funniest thing about .40 S&W is ballistically very similar to .41 action express which got introduced all the way back in 1986 but nobody understood wtf it was so it got ignored but then the FBI went 10mm in 1989 but guns were too big for the average user so they downsized to .40 S&W in 1990. But the .41 AE would have been the easy button and was probably the better performer.

[NYH1]

That's where I'm at. The only exotic I've got is a USP compact in .357 SIG because I bought it for my dad, because that is the one he wanted and when he passed I got it back. Funniest thing about .40 S&W is ballistically very similar to .41 action express which got introduced all the way back in 1986 but nobody understood wtf it was so it got ignored but then the FBI went 10mm in 1989 but guns were too big for the average user so they downsized to .40 S&W in 1990. But the .41 AE would have been the easy button and was probably the better performer.

I thought the FBI went to the G22/23 40 S&W in 1997/98ish?

NYH1.

[SteyrAUG]

I thought the FBI went to the G22/23 40 S&W in 1997/98ish?

NYH1.

They picked up the MP5/40 earlier than that but I was still off by a few years.

[Ron3]

That's where I'm at. The only exotic I've got is a USP compact in .357 SIG because I bought it for my dad, because that is the one he wanted and when he passed I got it back. Funniest thing about .40 S&W is ballistically very similar to .41 action express which got introduced all the way back in 1986 but nobody understood wtf it was so it got ignored but then the FBI went 10mm in 1989 but guns were too big for the average user so they downsized to .40 S&W in 1990. But the .41 AE would have been the easy button and was probably the better performer.

Yea .41 AE needed better advertising.

[markm]

I never did get dies for 40 cal. I just don't shoot enough of it to justify a loading set up. I just hurt my soul to pay $0.50 per round when 9mm is nearly half that.

I was terrified to shoot the pistol after running everyone else's 9mm pistols all the time. But after the first snappy recoil, I was able to run the gun respectably.

[Krazykarl]

I enjoy my G27. In a covid world, having a G30, G27, and G17 was a blessing. A solid chance at finding something on the LGS ammo shelf that could work.