I'm sure this as been asked many times so I'll try to make this brief in hope of a easy answer.
The question is what is the best 9mm round for less felt recoil? I know it's a tough physics question with frame and barrel configurations, but let's simplify it and narrow the field to sub-compact 9 mm pistols. DAO and DA/SA: specifically a Sig P290 RS and A Taurus PT111 G2.
I want to hear comments and experiences about using heavy grain 9mm ammunition at about ~147 to 154 grains in a non-suppressed compact/Subcompact 9MM Pistol.
I don't see much difference in recoil between 115 to 124 gr FMJ/JHP. So my thought is to go heavyweight bullets in lieu of buying a different gun. The Sig P290Rs is a little snappy, a little hot, with a top heavy steel slide and a light polymer frame.
So combine that snappishness an with a long, DAO pull and the Sig is a little uncontrollable especially in a double-tap. Again I accept that some of the uncontrollability may be a shooter "flinch response" anticipating that long DAO pull. I often land high and left which is a true sign of right handed flinching. But whether I flinch or not the gun still has pronounced muzzle lift.
My question is: will a subsonic rounds (or a heavyweight round and are they synonymous? Assuming all heavyweight rounds of a certain grain are subsonic) 1) first cycle reliably in the guns I have described? And 2) will the heavier weight bullet, say Norma 154 Gr subsonic, Or like the Federal 150 Gr or similar have any lessening of felt recoil over 115 or 124 grain?
Thanks to those who know more than I.
The question is what is the best 9mm round for less felt recoil? I know it's a tough physics question with frame and barrel configurations, but let's simplify it and narrow the field to sub-compact 9 mm pistols. DAO and DA/SA: specifically a Sig P290 RS and A Taurus PT111 G2.
I want to hear comments and experiences about using heavy grain 9mm ammunition at about ~147 to 154 grains in a non-suppressed compact/Subcompact 9MM Pistol.
I don't see much difference in recoil between 115 to 124 gr FMJ/JHP. So my thought is to go heavyweight bullets in lieu of buying a different gun. The Sig P290Rs is a little snappy, a little hot, with a top heavy steel slide and a light polymer frame.
So combine that snappishness an with a long, DAO pull and the Sig is a little uncontrollable especially in a double-tap. Again I accept that some of the uncontrollability may be a shooter "flinch response" anticipating that long DAO pull. I often land high and left which is a true sign of right handed flinching. But whether I flinch or not the gun still has pronounced muzzle lift.
My question is: will a subsonic rounds (or a heavyweight round and are they synonymous? Assuming all heavyweight rounds of a certain grain are subsonic) 1) first cycle reliably in the guns I have described? And 2) will the heavier weight bullet, say Norma 154 Gr subsonic, Or like the Federal 150 Gr or similar have any lessening of felt recoil over 115 or 124 grain?
Thanks to those who know more than I.