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Originally Posted by jyl
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I've never been a big fan of autoloaders, so I have never really paid all that much attention to the various developments that came along in that era. I do remember this one, though. And the .460 Rowland, .45 Winchester Magnum, the various Super Mags, and it seems like maybe one or two more. I think that in the end they all kind of faded away for various reasons. The most common complaint I remember hearing was just how hard they were on the guns, with cracking frames and other problems. Even Colt pulled their 10mm Delta Elite for awhile, and wound up redesigning something in it.
I guess at the end of the day, the old .45 ACP has proven to be all anyone needs in a defensive pistol round. Anything more seems to just add to recoil and noise, with no notable increase in effectiveness. None of these ever proved powerful enough as hunting rounds either, so they kind of occupied a "no man's land" between enough for self defense and not enough for hunting.