[Thor]

While shooting bowling pins in local matches, the 230 gr 45 hard ball would knock the "toot" out of the pins and slam them way off the table, but many times could not penetrate a new pin (one that didnt have that hardened surface cracked or perforated yet) and after it slammed the pin, it would occassionaly bounce back and harmlessly hit the shooter or awaiting shooters in the foot. This was in an indoor range so it helped the bullet make it back to us. 9mms would routinely just slip through these pins with little momentum exchange. I did develop a load with the 9 that worked pretty good, a 115 gr silver tip (soft Hollow point) at 1325 from a Glock pistol, these would push the pins pretty good, but never as good as the heavy 45s did.