The Old Fuff is greatly amused...
People have been “getting the business done” for decades past without having to load their chambers and cylinders with the latest fad. And in case some of the high performance advocates haven’t noticed, hollow-pointed bullets don’t always either work either. Emergency room surgeons have pointed out for years that they can’t tell what kind of bullet made a wound channel (other then it was probably big or small) until, or if when they recover the slug.
What really gets the business done is when a vital organ – preferably in the attacker’s central nervous system, get impacted and ceases to function. It is doubtful if the organ knows what hit it, and no matter what it shuts down – if it’s going to at all.
A peripheral hit in a non-vital region isn’t more likely to stop a determined person that a similar hit from a non-fad bullet.
Hollow point bullets tend to lack penetration, which is supposed to be a virtue, unless of course who ever is assaulting you is behind some kind of cover.
The heavier hollow-points require velocity to expand, and that can be difficult to get out of a snubby length barrel. Lighter bullets lack mass, and often don’t shoot to the point of aim – but this may not matter if the shooter doesn’t either...
Somehow I don’t think I’ll give up the ship if I get into trouble and don’t find myself with a particular style of ammunition – they’ll be a lot more important things to worry about then that. And if the proposition is that no one can win in a shooting with anything less then a Plus-P .38 Special, those who have been done in with .22, .25 and .32 handguns must be a myth....
I don’t give a zip about what other folks carry in their guns, and I’m sure no one else cares about what I do. The only problem I see is that some may be so confident in their choice of ammunition that they don’t pay attention to some other important considerations, like exactly hitting the right place, and doing it quickly – every time.
