[High Praise! to A Trainwreck in Maxwell]
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Personally, I still say the best caliber is whichever one that’s in the firearm you actually have on you when you need it.
[High Praise! to A Trainwreck in Maxwell]
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Personally, I still say the best caliber is whichever one that’s in the firearm you actually have on you when you need it.
for what it’s worth, many years ago when i was finishing my surgical residency the caliber with the highest one shot kill rate was the .357 mag.
I own both a .45 and a .357.
I’ve never had any trouble while carrying either one.
Thanks for posting that video, I needed a good laugh! 😀
The one in your hand when the bad guys arrive.
I don’t know why they’re making so much fun of the 9mm.
I know for a fact that it can penetrate a steel bulldozer blade, if you’re using cop-killer bullets! I saw it in a documentary called “Lethal Weapon”.
/fact-challenged lib anti-gun reporter mode
sure the .45 is great, unless you LIKE coffee. Then I’d go with the .40. I’m a tea drinker so naturally I prefer the .50.
@5 – WHAT? You drink tea?
I just dump mine in harbors like a good, patriotic American.
Heh-heh; did you see the story on Blackfive a few years ago about the vet who shot burglar with a .22? The bad guy lived to run away since the bullet skidded off (or around) his skull. The vet was given grief by his buddies for opening a gun battle with a pistol whose caliber didn’t start with ‘4’. The crowd gave the vet the benefit of the doubt that it was old ammunition.
And the guy who plays the bad guy on the video sounds like one of guys from Ranger Up!
In the past 100 years of murdering people in America, the 22LR is the top performer. If all you really want to do is make a criminal change his mind from violence to “run Away” mode, getting shot at by any caliber is enough in most cases.
12 GA Slug…. “honest officer, I didn’t cut this off, it’s just a really big pistol…. with 2 barrels…..”
@10: In NC, a sawed-off shotgun (barrel length less than 18 inches) is “a weapon of mass destruction.”
.45 if you’re looking to put down primitive Phillipine tribesmen (or other rampaging badguys)…shotgun flechette rounds if you really want to have fun taking out troublemakers.
I have always believed that there is something unamerican about poking metric holes in someone.
@ 13 burt: If we called it .354 instead of 9 mm, would that make you feel better about it?