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Oh no, I wasn't being sarcastic, I'm legitimately interested in getting an authoritative database of ballistics for HD.
Good offense is the better defense, if you want to talk vague theories.....308 or .30-06 is for offense, not defense
hmmmm HD in a very thin wall apartment.......i might would go with a shotgun with non-lethal loads.....(rubber bulletts)....just an idea?
And, as for jnoble87's commentI would never recommend that someone use a less lethal round for HD use. The chances of you killing someone through a wall with an overpenetrating round is much less than the chance of an aggressor getting up and killing you after being hit with a less lethal round.
I think that there are certainly better choices for inside-the-domicile SD, but there are other aspects to defense, too. Outside-the-house, neighborhood defense, farm defense and/or general "Katrina rifle" applications could involve 50-150 yard shots on occaision. With a quick magazine change, you can select the projectile for various apps. The .308 and several dozen models of rifles chambering it are so darn versatile that, if you've got one, consider yourself lucky. If it's what you've got or what you're holding in your hands at the moment a self-defense situation becomes do-or-die, then you could do a lot worse. It is also nearly perfect for hunting, should we be faced with a survival or financial collapse situation.Holy dead thread Batman! I'd hope after 4 years they figured out that a high power rifle wasn't a practical home defense gun.
AFAIK, the Box O'Truth has not tested any light to medium weight rifle JHP against drywall, and has done no drywall tests with realistic wall spacing.That missing with anything will lead to bad overpenetration, and that hollowpoints won't reduce overpenetration. I haven't been able to track down any sort of Box O' Truth - like test for 110 TAP or a similarly constructed bullet, but I'd suspect it would slice through quite a few walls before it broke up and stopped.