.25acp kills you just as dead...

[Gordon]

That one made me cry and thank G-d for giving out some justice that day. Yes ANYTHING is better than nothing.

 

[Quartus]

Zundfolge, that story, along with a bunch like it in a book (the name of which I don't remember) went a LOOOONNNG way toward convincing my previously anti wife that she needed to learn to shoot.

It's a good one to share.

 

[Bainx]

I still like the idea of throwin' the .25 at the bad guy.

 

[Cooter Brown]

I Love My Beretta Minx .22 Short

But, its is only for last-ditch use, when all else including running like hell and begging for mercy fails. With CCI hollow points at about a yard or two distance it is very accurate, reliable, and knocks a bigger chunk out of the exit side of a pine 2 X 4 than does a .25 FMJ.

 

[raveon59]

Wasn't Mr. Brady hit with a .22 LR-so much for what the har that cal can cause.

 

[okjoe]

For what it's worth, here is a link to the first part of an FBI paper on handgun wounding factors and effectiveness:

http://www.pointshooting.com/fbipart1.htm

As I understand it, the paper was the basis for the FBI's going to .40 caliber for penetration effectiveness.

However, 40 cal's, as I understand it, are "hotter shots" on a 9 mm frame, and which because they are hotter, are harder to shoot accurately.

In some tests I have made, I found that a 40 cal is harder to shoot "accurately" than a 9 mm.

Also, and as I understand it, advancements in bullet production since the paper was published, have resolved the penetration differences between the "old" 9 mm and the 40 cal.

So it may be that one dilema, was resolved by another, which was followed by a resolution of the original dilema.

At least the paper's origin is the FBI.

Just trying to be helpful.

 

[Rich357]

Things you can die of... a 25acp, 3 inches of water, blood poisoning from a scratch on your hand... and drinking water. Virtually every one who had died in the last 100 years has ingested water.

Rich
ps Did I mention many people who have eaten bannas have died (years later).

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Rich, ah yes, terminal theory. You forgot the most common cause of death, life. Life is a terminal condition. Everyone who has died had been alive at some point before they died.

You know, throwing your .25 acp pistol at the bad guy isn't a bad thing. You know that Superman would stand in place while folks shot him hundreds of times with pistols, rifles, machineguns. Sometmes he even smiled and would not flinch. Once the bad guys were out of ammo, they would throw their pistols at him and that got a dramatic response where he would duck to avoid the incoming projectile. He feared the gun, not the bullets.

 

[Gordon]

Yup, any one who doesn't fear getting hit by a .25 is living in Superman's world,for a while!

 

[vanfunk]

Actually, Double Naught...
Despite advancements in research and treatment, death remains the nation's #1 killer..............



:banghead:


vanfunk

 

[JERRY]

anyone remember the south carolina highway patrolman who pumped 4 .357's in a bad guy who in turn fired a single .22 from a naa mini revolver (about the same balistics as a .25 in these guns).

remember who lived and who died right there?



shot placement, shot placement, shot placement. oh, did i say shot placement?

 

[iluv308]

jeff cooper

did Jeff Cooper not call the 25 acp a nose gun......