BowStreetRunner
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Like many people, I love the .45 auto.....its big, the recoil feels right, and John Browning's 1911 .45 auto design is timeless
but the round isnt perfect, check this out....its from Handgun Stopping Power by Marshall and Sanow
"The rooming house residents had been arguing all day. Finally, two of them had traded blows and vowed to go get their guns. They met in the hallway. One was armed with a Government Model Colt loaded with hardball while the other had a cheap .22 caliber revolver. Our .45 lover laughed and opened fire. After he emptied the gun, he looked in amazement as the .22 carrier pointed his small revolver at his chest and fired once. The auto dropped from his hands as he died.
The .22 carrier went into his room, changed clothes, and took two different buses to the hospital, where the doctors removed seven rounds of .45 ball from his chest."
There is a lesson to be had
BSR
but the round isnt perfect, check this out....its from Handgun Stopping Power by Marshall and Sanow
"The rooming house residents had been arguing all day. Finally, two of them had traded blows and vowed to go get their guns. They met in the hallway. One was armed with a Government Model Colt loaded with hardball while the other had a cheap .22 caliber revolver. Our .45 lover laughed and opened fire. After he emptied the gun, he looked in amazement as the .22 carrier pointed his small revolver at his chest and fired once. The auto dropped from his hands as he died.
The .22 carrier went into his room, changed clothes, and took two different buses to the hospital, where the doctors removed seven rounds of .45 ball from his chest."
There is a lesson to be had
BSR