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After all I've seen it's all about shot placement and penetration.
Keep in mind that there is an abundance of street data that shows heart shots [ as well as other shots to what should have been a stop ] not "stopping" the assailant/bg even with the heart blown out. It can take up to 20 seconds for the person to bleed out enough to go into shock from lack of blood pressure.
I know of one suspect who ran off some 150 feet or so [ iirc ] with 5 well placed shots to the heart with a duty 357 magnum. Jim Music [ a member here ] was the partner to the officer shooting the 357 and was on scene when it happened.
Thats why I wrote
"Stopping power is not a result, nor based on where the rd hits, or it's energy, nor its bullet design. None of the above is "reliable" in stopping someone. It's always a crap shoot till it happens."
There are cases of every rds failing to stop, and also making stops [ stops to me means stopping them from further actions against me right then, not seconds or multiples of seconds later ].
Penetration, yes, there's no question the round has to penetrate and get organs bleeding. Organs are deep for a reason, they are well protected for the most part.
I can probably effect a stop simply by putting multiple rds into multiple organs faster than one or multiple rounds perfectly placed, all to one organ. Thats going to be a good bet for me, as four organs bleeding within tenths of a second apart will drop the blood pressure faster than the ONE organ [ any organ ]damaged.
Shock ocurrs when the BP gets too low. Simply, BP will decrease more rapidly with multiple organs [ that none in and by themselves might effect a stop ordinarily ], bleeding out/damaged.
If adrenaline has been introduced into the bg through some "fight or flight" before the shots hit, all the harder to be sure that penetration and shot placement will be enough to make the stop, and not allow the bg to continue to be a threat for some seconds, minutes or live for days ].
Adrenaline will keep the BP artificially inflated while the bg is bleeding out of organs for even more time than it would normally take. As this is all situationally dependant and individual on a case by case basis, I don't think we can say penetration and shot placement alone will get us through [ though it sure doesn't hurt to have both to begin with
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Luck of the draw, some will fall and cease being a threat and others will not with the same shots from the same loads. Multiples of rds COM to different organs, get as many as you can in him as fast as possible, dropping the BP quickly. If you can do that, you are likely to see the best results from stacking the deck [ sorta speak ].
I like the penetration aspect, the rds needs to get to vitals. I like the shot placement as well, but I'm not going to take the time to make some perfect shot, or double tap to the same organ when about to take or taking incoming.
Brownie
