Maybe a silly question but...

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From everything that I have heard and read and not from personal experience, thank God, it would seem to be the .25 acp.
 
Worst!?? .... haha ... do ya really want to kick of another caliber wars thread!!?:D

I'd certainly rate .25acp as about worst ... maybe .22LR is in there also .. even tho plenty of victims would attest (if still alive!) to the effectiveness of either ... even if ''slow'' to act!

I don't think ''effectiveness'' really begins until 32acp and up. More velocity and more bullet is in general way to go!:p
 
.22 short probably takes the cake (I think we're talking firearms here RVSinOK, BBs don't count ;))

I still wouldn't want to get shot with a .22 short, though...

Been shot with BBs, but we always had a one pump rule so they didn't hurt all that much unless they hit bare skin :D
 
i would feel much more armed with a 22 lr target pistol, than with a 25 cal pocket gun.

a 22lr out of a standard target pistol will do nasty things to a steel drum. And i aint no steel drum.
 
Bullet style trumps caliber...
Placement can trump both.

My ex-wife put 3 rounds of .38 spl into husband #5's back from a distance of ~ 5 feet @ ~ 11:00 PM. He lay there trying to reach for the phone to call 911 until ~ 6:00AM the following morning. She, ,,,being not so anxious to have him call,,, stabbed at his hand/arm all night long w/a kitchen knife each time he tried.

@ ~ 6:00 AM, she sobered up enough to decide he was looking kinda bad off, and piled him into the front seat of the van to take him to the hospital. (En route to the hospital, she decided she needed some coffee, so she left him gurgling and bleeding in the van while she went into a "stop and rob" for a cup of Joe. - talk about a cold bitch!)

Evidently, the coffee had even more of a sobering effect,, because she realized that going to the hospital meant answering a lot of *damn fool* questions about what happened. Being the now somewhat sober and <dripping sarcasm/on> caring individual <sarcasm/off> she is/was,,,she slowed down a bit when she went through the emergency driveway,,,opened the passenger door,,and gave him a shove.

He survived, and recovered within a few weeks.
She was arrested, tried and convicted of - attempted murder(shooting) w/gun specification - aggrevated assualt (the stabbings all night long) - tampering with evidence (she mopped up some of the blood on the seat of the van and threw the bloody towel in the dumpster @ the "stop and rob/coffee shop").

Caliber? naw. a well placed .22 can be more effective than 3 poorly placed .38's.
 
Hey Hal, I also hope you were husband number something less than 5!

And middy, I had the privilege of being the first one to reply to the post, so you know it HAD to be something sarcastic, right? :D
 
I'd probably feel the least well armed with a 25ACP. Then any 22 less than a high velocity LR. Funny, because I'm pretty sure most sources say the two rounds that kill the most people (US civilians) each year are the 25ACP and the 22.

Between 9mm, 40, 357 Mag or SIG, 45ACP, 10mm... I'd feel equally well armed as long as I could shoot them properly. Below that, I'd put standard snub 38s, 380s, 32s, 22 Mags and high/hyper velocty 22s.
 
The following is nothing more that my opinion:

Worst Centerfire- 25 ACP

Worst Rimfire- any .17 caliber

Worst Pellet- 6.5mm BB :neener:
 
I'd have to say the one you wished you had - but left in the safe at home - because it was too inconvenient to lug around.
 
Anything under a 380ACP or 9x18Mak seems pretty weak when reported in real shootings. They will kill but not stop. If I shoot an attacker and they kill me then die, well thats not exactly what I'm looking for in a weapon.

I would rather have a 22LR than a 25acp. 22LR will/can penetrate, the 25ACP will many times stop in muscle before getting to anything vital.
 
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FWIW, I've actually seen a guy shot with a .25ACP Raven from about twenty feet away.

These two young guys, early twenties, got all drunked up, and started arguing about sumpin' stoopid... Both were good sized guys, the shootee was about six foot tall maybe a hundred eighty-five pounds. The shooter decided it would be better to just shoot him, rather than waste all that time by using his fists. The bullet entered the chest just under the left nipple, somehow traveled around the vitals by following the inside of the ribcage, and lodged between two ribs in his back. The ER doctor decided to remove it would cause more problems than not.

The result? A good one shot stop...

If the bullet had not tumbled just right and instead had penetrated the lung or heart? You tell me...
 
I live by the theory that I hope to never need to shoot someone but if I do I don't want to have to shoot him more than once ( Master Clint's advice not withstanding)

Years ago I knew a dept store security guard that chased a couple of shoplifters into the parking lot. One of them shot him in the neck with a .25.
After he beat the crap out of both of them he held them for the cops
 
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