A food for thought design and materials roundtable on a cold Winter evening (without highjacking the thread below):
Background: Georgia Arms has developed an effective, low velocity, low recoil, lead wadcutter round for the short range self defense application in short barrel 38 spl revolvers. It's a superb solution to a specific requirement. A key factor in this cartridges success is the wadcutter shape.
Two questions:
1) the easy one - is there a need for a 9mm version of the GA wadcutter load for short barrel 9mm revolvers. This is probably more of a cost problem than technical, but there may be enough of a market to make it viable product.
2) the difficult one - can the industry design very short barrel 9mm semi-auto that will reliably feed the 9mm version of the GA wadcutter? I understand there are engineering issues, but if S&W could make the Model 52 run (a 38 spl wadcutter target semi-automatic), why can't modern materials and engineering duplicate their success in 9mm? A deep hideout BUG in 9mm holding more rounds than a revolver might be commercially successful.
This might be a superior solution for shooters who want an short range, low velocity, low recoil self defense handgun that's more effective than 22LR or 22WMR.
(Mods: pls delete the unintentional double post below).