WESHOT2 wrote:
My 9x19 ammo is not 'insufficient'
Regardless of the caliber I might use, I believe in the 'empty until you get the correct response" method..
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That's a sound enough plan, so long as one is not making himself a good target (by standing still) or there is not another threat close by that you must deal with (half or more of all assaults involve more than one assailant according to some, though personally I have not found that).
While I am not much on statistics, I don't find the P.M./Fairburn study to be that far off in that on average (with JHP ammo) you can expect to register five (5) 9mm hits before the fight is over and you can expect to register about half that many .357 mag or .45 hits. .38s are somewhere between (the revolver calibers probably indicate that there were several 6 shot cases but you just could not get more at the time the study was done unless you reload - there was the case involving 10 .357 hits in Louisiana). On the other hand this sort of hides the several cases we have seen where 15 9mm chest hits were ineffective and the few cases in which 32,33, 42 and 65 torso hits were ineffective. Of course those are not the norm, but then gunfights are not the norm and my luck is not so good
The fly in the ointment is that typically you only have about 2 to 3 seconds to identify the threat, present your weapon and deal with the problem - it takes most people at least half that time to get the gun out so it matters not so much how many bullets your weapon holds (in most cases but not all) but how many hits you can achieve, while moving, in that second - and how much damage each one does.
Of course all situations are not the same and some do indeed turn into running gun battles when the BG could not deliver a telling blow also. So it is not unsound to go for more capacity.
It is good to Remember John Hall's (former head of the FBI FTU)#3 rule of gunfighting: "Bigger is better and more is more".
Or better yet, Pray the first bullet will work....shoot like the last one won't!
Press on,
Jim H.