In A Discussion On Bullet Weight For The .45 ACP

…And Saint Browning raised the .45 ACP up on high, saying, “O LORD, bless this Thy handgun’s cartidge that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy.” And the LORD did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu…

[why don’t we skip a bit, brother]…

And the LORD spake, saying, “Shalt thou use bullets of 230 grains, no less. 230 grains shall be the number thou shalt carry, and the number of grains of the carrying shall be 230. 185 shalt thou not carry, neither a round count thou 200, excepting that thou are pausing when couting 230. 140 is right out. Once the grains being 230, being the right number, be obtained, then loadest thou thy Holy Handgun of 1911, so that thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.”

2 Comments

  1. Daniel Watters on January 21, 2015 at 12:52 pm

    FWIW: The original .45 ACP load for the Colt M1905 was a 200gr FMJ at ~900fps.



  2. John Roy on January 24, 2015 at 5:38 am

    Well done, a true Python fan, Monty that is.