9mm is still cheap and is the hotbed of projectile development these days. I also prefer .45 personally, among other reasons because the flying ashtray projectiles it throws tend to be subsonic.
Probably and unfortunately going to be going to 9mm for carry in places where while legal the local DA will be a try hard to find something to hang up any self-defense shooter on. Likely a Glock or clone due to inexpensive, commonly available easily and quickly swapped out parts and that’s all I’ll say about that in an open forum. “Unknown Glock 9mm” is the most common ballistic finding these days, after all…
“ Likely a Glock or clone due to inexpensive, commonly available easily and quickly swapped out parts and that’s all I’ll say about that in an open forum. “Unknown Glock 9mm” is the most common ballistic finding these days, after all…”
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I carried 40/45/357/44 and 380 in real hot weather for decades and just a couple years ago acquired my first 9
SigP365xl which almost immediately became my favorite carry gun it’s been absolutely reliable, accurate enough out to 25 yds and lotsa of capacity in a small package
It’s my first striker fired plastic gun as well but only took my a few hundred rounds to get feel and some muscle memory going so it points well too
Climate here just makes lugging around a big steel frame pistol a pita