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Bests 9 mm home defense round
utbrowningman
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I just purchased a Kahr CW9 for concealed carry and would like to know the best self defense round. Please don't tell me I should have bought a .40SW (or .45) instead. My wife will use this gun as well and a .40 would probably have been too much for her.
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Gold Dots
Golden Sabres
SXT's
All are great defense bullets, go with 115 or 124gr weights, the 124 being my choice in my 9mm.
What type area do you live? Apartments? Town houses? Single family houses on small lots? No neighbor for 1 mile?
Neal
Hornady TAP
Hornady TAP FPD rounds have an extremely low flash, one of the reasons I use them. Loss of vision, even momentarily, is a bad thing.
It depends. What type area do you live? Apartments? Town houses? Single family houses on small lots? No neighbor for 1 mile?
Neal
Single family - suburbia. I was interested in the frangable bullets and wonder how effective they are on human targets. Are they as effective as a JHP?
Stay away from "cowboy loads", reloads and other non-mainstream loads. Hydra-shok is a good load and others recommended by your favorite gun shop. Cor-bon loads are hot and popular.
I like Winchester Silvertips just because they seem to feed well and are quite accurate.