Throughout history, most personal defense situations are between 10 yards or closer. Personal defense does not include a range beyond 25 yards. But for the most part, a handgun’s primary purpose is a personal defense weapon. Rarely are handguns used in hunting and the 9mm is not a hunting cartridge. Compared to a rifle, the handgun is a prosecuting firearm at close quarter combat. In combat situations, it plays the role of the sword in the bygone eras and it is used as a last resort. You have to ask yourself, what is the use of a handgun? A pistol was never intended to be a battle weapon. To expand on this question we must understand the purpose of having a pistol and its primary use. In the real world, in cases of life and death situations, or self-defense shootings, it is quite common for shooters to miss their targets seven out of ten times within a few yards distance. Sometimes 200 yards and that is if the gods of luck smile. Significantly less because there are just so many factors to account for.įrom experience, a reasonably skilled shooter with a 9mm handgun may be able to hit a man-sized target out to a hundred yards on a practice range. And this estimate is for the average effective range for an average shooter using average equipment on an average day. The safe estimate for both target and combat shooting is, however, between 25 and 50 meters. The basic answer to this question varies based on the gun and the shooter abilities. The target is motionless and at a known distance in the perfect environmental conditions. However, the estimate takes into account match grade ammo when fired from a perfectly maintained weapon and by a skilled marksman in a stable shooting position. If it sounds absurd, it is because the assumption is ridiculous. If you define the effective range as the distance a shooter can deliver a hit to a man-sized target, then the maximum effective range for a 9mm round fired from a handgun is about 1800 meters.
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