moooose102
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i confess, i have read and used (i don't remember if it was this exact article or not) an article like this for choosing my ccw. these articles are great reference, the author(s) have gone to great lengths to give us evcellent information. they can help you to decide which caliber is what you desire for "stopping power". they are not intended as "words from god". and the hardest hitting round may not be a match for you. there are many considerations one has to contemplate in order to find the best fit for him or her. power, noise, recoil size weight, cartride capacity, sights, trigger pull, d.a/s.a, concealed or not, are most of the things we need to consider. i am a pretty good sized person, and dont mind some recoil, however, i also must confess that std. 45acp ammo is all i want. i shot some +p ammo a couple of weeks ago, and it's a little more than i want to handle. at least in a self defense situation. every situation is going to be different. just like every one of us is different. a well placed .22 lr entering at the top of the nose may stop a person with one shot instantly, but when somebody is charging you at 10 feet with a butcher knife, who amongst us has enough composure to actually be ABLE to make a shot like that? and not everybody would fall to the ground from a single shot to the chest cavity with a 500 smith and wesson magnum (even though it should pick them up and set them down a block away). being a border patrol officer, or any l.e.o., for that matter must, at times, be sheer h.e. double hockey stix. i can only imagine what it must be like in an actual gunfight. where the bad and good guys are actually fighting for their life's! i hope i never have to go through it. but i do ccw, and if forced into a battle for my life, i will not just sit there and be shot to death. i carry a 45, but that doesn't mean i will shoot and holster. i will as many as it takes for me to be able to walk away, hopefully unharmed. if that means 10 rounds, so be it. i think we all would like to think that there is a perfect one shot, one kill pistol. but in the real world, there are no guarantees. so buy what you can shoot, shoot often enough to place your shots well, and if the shooting ever starts, PRAY HARD AND SHOOT WELL! i believe that hollow points are one of the things that will help stack the odds in your favor. a round that expands will deliver its energy much better in soft flesh than ball ammo. i have heard people talk about only shooting ball ammo, how with a 45, hollow points are unnessesary. personally, i dont care if your shooting a 22 or .50 ae, a bigger hole is going to help. not only are you more likely to damage something vital or catch an artery, the shock wave is much more intense. and i personally believe that the shock wave has more to stopping a person with one shot that the actual diameter of the hole. on second thought, i can think of a one shot, one kill weapon. although it would be quite hard to carry it on your hip. a 5" cannon filled with 50 or so 1/2" ball bearings would be a guaranteed one shot one kill gun. at least if you hit the person. although, the noise might scare him to death!
