What do you think is the best carry caliber and why?
I'll give you a real answer. I don't know why folks are so hard on opinion questions
During my law enforcement tenure I carried both the .38 Special and 9mm and both were consistently poor performers. I am personally aware of incidents in which one suspect took six rounds at handshaking distance and then walked to the ambulance, and another (a psychotic acting out with a knife in each hand) who took six rounds from three officer's sidearms, went down, got up and charged them again, took another six rounds, went down, got up again and took six more rounds before he went down and stayed there, dying later in the ER. For the mathematically challenged that's eighteen rounds delivered across the distance of a residential room. If that had been a lone officer instead of three he'd have been dead.
I hear the arguments here about improved ballistics of these calibers but my experience is real-world, not academic, and I don't trust them.
Which is better .45 ACP or 9mm Luger?
The .40 Smith & Wesson is about to be discontinued?
The lifetime LTCH is about to be repealed.
1911s suck
Glocks suck
During my law enforcement tenure I carried both the .38 Special and 9mm and both were consistently poor performers. I am personally aware of incidents in which one suspect took six rounds at handshaking distance and then walked to the ambulance, and another (a psychotic acting out with a knife in each hand) who took six rounds from three officer's sidearms, went down, got up and charged them again, took another six rounds, went down, got up again and took six more rounds before he went down and stayed there, dying later in the ER. For the mathematically challenged that's eighteen rounds delivered across the distance of a residential room. If that had been a lone officer instead of three he'd have been dead.
I hear the arguments here about improved ballistics of these calibers but my experience is real-world, not academic, and I don't trust them.