[Adam5]

Is anyone here familiar with the 9mm Federal caliber? I sit just another name for std 9mm? I'm looking at 9mm wheel guns and see some Charter Arms "Pit Bull" models that are chambered in 9mm Feredal.

 

[GunNut]

It is different, it is a rimmed cartridge. I'm not even sure you can buy that ammo anymore. I don't recall seeing it listed on any of the sites I look.

 

[viper32cm]

Is anyone here familiar with the 9mm Federal caliber? I sit just another name for std 9mm? I'm looking at 9mm wheel guns and see some Charter Arms "Pit Bull" models that are chambered in 9mm Feredal.

It's standard pressure 9x19 with a rimmed case. I've only seen one gun chambered in it, a Charter Arms. The gun was for sale with 1/2 a box of FMJ. I'd go out on a limb and say it's probably hard to get 9MM Fed. than it is .356 TSW.

Maybe you could reload for it.

 

[Adam5]

That's what I was thinking. I'm considering some more caliber consolidation, and trading my PPK/S for a 9mm wheel gun. IF (a big IF) I do, I think that I'll stay with std 9mm. I can get a Taurus 905 5 shot in stainless for under $400.

 

[Macktee]

Isn't that why they make moon clips? To shoot rimless cartridges in revolvers?

Something like this:

http://www.outdoors.net/site/images/ima ... rpage+9849

:wink:

 

[viper32cm]

Pretty much, I think that's why ideas like that go away relatively quickly.

I'm betting the 9MM federal wasn't that much more effective than .38 Spl +p, certainly less effective than .357 mag, and I'd also bet it cost a lot more to boot.

No one seems to realize that the market for new calibers was pretty much saturated 50 years ago.