Pulling the trigger more than once no matter if it be a .22lr or a 500SW doesn't matter when you put that round in the right place.
You can shoot someone 15 times with a .45 and it wont kill them if it doesn't hit anything vital.
Plus modern projectile and load science make 9mm and .45acp pretty close ballistically, when you're using a quality JHP with the right load behind it.
For an all in one .45 though.... I'd look into the H&K USP .45 Compact. If that's out of your budget, The Glock 30S or 30SF is an awesome gun, as well as the S&W M&P45c with an APEX trigger.
You will not get more reliable double stacks than the three above IMO.
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Otherwise go 1911 cuz churchmouse said so.
Pulling the trigger more than once no matter if it be a .22lr or a 500SW doesn't matter when you put that round in the right place.
You can shoot someone 15 times with a .45 and it wont kill them if it doesn't hit anything vital.
Plus modern projectile and load science make 9mm and .45acp pretty close ballistically, when you're using a quality JHP with the right load behind it.
For an all in one .45 though.... I'd look into the H&K USP .45 Compact. If that's out of your budget, The Glock 30S or 30SF is an awesome gun, as well as the S&W M&P45c with an APEX trigger.
You will not get more reliable double stacks than the three above IMO.
You have addressed a couple of good points which often get overlooked. Better bullet design has become a great equalizer between calibers. I can remember the time when I would have felt underprepared relying on a 9, but that gap has closed. That doesn't mean that I don't take comfort in one of those big flying ashtrays standing between me and the forces of evil, but I am still aware that a 9 with good ammunition will get the job done quite nicely.
The other point you raised by implication is that we tend to learn something once which can best be described as a conditional truth and tend to hold to it long past the point at which the conditions have changed and it therefore is no longer truth. In my reckoning, that is one of the nicer things about INGO is that when one actively participates, there is a steady stream of current information available which does much to prevent this mindset from taking root and staying in place unabated.
Whatever gun you're currently used to shooting, but in a different caliber. If you carry M&P9, go M&P...if you carry a Glock 19, go G21 or G30.
Don't know what area of the state you are in. If ever around Warsaw be glad to let you shoot a Sig and the Ruger back too back.I'd look at the Sig or Ruger 1911. I have held both and shot a Ruger 1911 and I was impressed with the way the Ruger shot.I liked how the Sig as well,but haven't had a chance to shoot a Sig 1911.