was that body shooting cattle with pistol loads has nothing to do with defensive shooting. 30 seconds is a long, long time to leave a man shooting/stabbing you. 
3 seconds is way too long, and .30 seconds might let him shoot you twice.
http://shootingmessengers.blogspot.com/2007/09/fyi-thompson-lagarde-stopping-power.html
I read that 1983 copy of the actual Army archive report, in Gun Digest. The cadavers barely twitched when shot, no measurements of the movements were attempted. yet Cooper spread baloney about the test's favoring the .45 by such a margin! Hatcher's stopping power factor was just a minor mental game he proposed, not some overwhelming test database, as Cooper also implied was the case. I've shot a lot more animals than this, with modern .45 swc loads, and I was not impressed. If you load the 230 gr swc to 1000 fps, in a 5" barrel, it has a certain amount of smack, but it's very hard to control same in rapidfire, from a lw, compact ccw gun. The 200 gr, 900 fps load, from a Commander, is just marginal on controllability, and was nothing special at all vs critters.
3 seconds is way too long, and .30 seconds might let him shoot you twice.http://shootingmessengers.blogspot.com/2007/09/fyi-thompson-lagarde-stopping-power.html
I read that 1983 copy of the actual Army archive report, in Gun Digest. The cadavers barely twitched when shot, no measurements of the movements were attempted. yet Cooper spread baloney about the test's favoring the .45 by such a margin!
Hatcher's stopping power factor was just a minor mental game he proposed, not some overwhelming test database, as Cooper also implied was the case. I've shot a lot more animals than this, with modern .45 swc loads, and I was not impressed. If you load the 230 gr swc to 1000 fps, in a 5" barrel, it has a certain amount of smack, but it's very hard to control same in rapidfire, from a lw, compact ccw gun. The 200 gr, 900 fps load, from a Commander, is just marginal on controllability, and was nothing special at all vs critters.
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