For people who doubt the .380 can do the job.

[NotTwoShure]

One hit with a .22 LR is better than 10 misses with a .50 BMG.

Caliber wars.... gotta love them simply because they never end. So I may as well jump in with my 2 pennies ...

Holes.... stopping a determined attacker is all about holes. Holes let blood leak out. Holes do damage to nerves and brain. Damage from holes physically incapacitate human beings.

Holes from big bullets do more damage than holes from small bullets.............. BUT!!!.............

Bullets that miss do not make holes regardless of what size they are.

What really matters is being able to control the gun well enough to put all the bullets, regardless of size, in a place that will make holes that cause the most damage.

For an extreme example.... one .45 that hits and makes a hole followed by several that miss equals a hole .45 of an inch (perhaps up to .75 with expansion). Yet 10 .22 hits that make holes equals a 2.2 inch hole.

Granted 10 .45's make a 4.5 inch hole but if the person can only control the .22 (or any other caliber) then the best caliber is............

......the caliber/gun combination that individual person is most accurate with (makes the most holes) under the stress of rapid fire while on the move.

Why rapid fire while on the move? Because real life is not like on the range where folks are standing still in a perfect stance carefully acquiring a perfect sight picture while gently squeezing the trigger shooting at a stationary target that isn't shooting back/trying to stab you. Real life is chaotic with lots of yelling, tunnel vision, bad guy moving around/attacking, while you are trying to move out of the way/get to cover/protect your loved one's, maybe in the dark while it is raining..... stuff that isn't anything like a sunny afternoon on the range with your buddies.

 

[DGeorge]

Someone once said that the size of the gun you carry is inversely proportional to the size of your junk.

 

[BluesStringer]

Someone once said that the size of the gun you carry is inversely proportional to the size of your junk.

Then "someone" is a monumentally shallow, unthinking sloganeer who wouldn't know a ballistic stat from a corn flake.

Idiotic slogans have no more relevance when choosing which caliber to carry/own/shoot than taking advice from a self-admitted gun-controller does, a reference not to the person I'm replying to here, but to the OP of this thread. Cluznar does this all the time. Starts thread after thread after thread after thread extolling the "virtues" of .32 ACP and/or .380, and then doesn't comment for months afterwards while newbs and old-timers alike engage in the caliber war endlessly. Most of the time only three or four (max) participants ever even attempt to post real scholarship on the subject so that people could ever actually learn something. As I said here back in May, "All you need to know about the OP can be found all over this site, and that's true even though two of the busiest sub-forums are closed and, for the time being at least, not archived anywhere."

The OP of this thread has made every "contribution" to this site that he's ever going to make. Every thread or post since his first few three or four years ago have been nothing but repeating what he came here to foist upon us, and that is, promulgating memes that will use the power of government to force us all to be unarmed or under-armed. Period. That is, and always has been, his agenda.

Blues

 

[Wild Dog]

Someone once said that the size of the gun you carry is inversely proportional to the size of your junk.

If that were true, I'd need to be packing one of these...








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[DGeorge]

WD, reread the quote. Do you know what "Inversely" means? If so then your junk must be microscopic.

 

[Wild Dog]

WD, reread the quote. Do you know what "Inversely" means? If so then your junk must be microscopic.

I stand by my statement. A real man admits his shortcomings.