[PoorMuttly]

You will NOT go wrong with either. You have excellent, intelligent taste. The .45ACP, in a normal, full-sized STEEL pistol is a dream to shoot...low pressure and velocity...and generally gets the job, whatever it is, done reliably. The 9mm is marginal, because being only .38 caliber, and a jacketed bullet, needs lots of velocity to expand a hollow point, and unlike a .357 revolver, when you get the complicated action feeding rounds all over the place really fast, you push the reliability envelope. The .45ACP flops out the barrel at moderate or faster speed, and doesn't need to expand at all to be lethal, or effective on target rings. When you raise the velocity...it's a big-bore cannon...which your autopistol should help to tame. Also, one gets more velocity from an auto, since there's no pressure loss from a cylinder gap, as with a revolver. So, you get full value out of a moderate load...easier to handle...and if already large diameter...finito la musica.

Try a Glock if you must, since it's always nice to know things from experience...but like anything else, there's no free lunch...plastic guns bend and are sensitive (jam) to limp-wristing...which could also be caused by haste or a wound...and a heavier weapon helps one to handle recoil...at least for me. I was also taught that it's handy to slug somebody on the noggin with a hefty piece of metal...the cowboys called it "buffaloing," and it was very popular...Still is, on the street...God forbid you'd need to.

[seeker41]

Wow, thanks for that great advice and technical discussion. I just don't like the 9mm pistolas and was afraid that people might think the recoil would be too much for me to handle with the 45 ACP's I had selected. Surely with practice this could be overcome. Actually I think the glocks are ugly. Isn't that just like a woman?