Also a real weapon and not a photoshop, btw!
Posted on 02/26/2011 8:19:05 PM PST by Artemis Webb
I have a Taurus 94 .22LR 9 shot revolver. Does ammo make any difference as a self defense or concealed carry weapon?
Not true. In 92% of cases where a person draws a weapon on a criminal, no shots are fired and the criminal is persuaded to leave.
It isn’t the best choice of caliber, but I doubt the thug will have enough time to sit there and determine it’s only a .22.
And those little slugs zip around inside the body ricocheting against bones into arteries and organs. If you use lead bullets if they don’t get them out they’ll wind up dying of lead poisoning.
Did he have to buy a new arm?
The tool is interesting for hunting ammo.
For self defense you are opening yourself up the charge of making a ‘killer’ bullet and that you then went out looking for someone to kill with it.
Truth will not matter to the civil lawyer trying to extract your home and savings from you for defending yourself from some predator bent on harming you or yours.
He said he walked to the doctor/hospital.
LOL, .22's are also good for practice when I'm feeling too cheap to use the *Good* stuff.
Regards,
GtG
I have a Walther P22 that I sometimes carry, but in spite of all my practice with it, I don’t shoot well with it. There’s virtually no recoil but my guess is that it has a very long trigger pull. Shooting instructors have told me to slowly squeeze the trigger to the halfway point. With this gun, there’s no halfway point. It’s either pulled all the way or it’s not. Does that make sense? A gunsmith could fix the problem, but I think I’m just going to get a different gun. I shoot very well with the Sig Mosquito but don’t want to have to buy the more expensive .22 ammo.
Bacterias are resistant to man-made drugs because they are over-prescribed. Natural antibiotics, however, are things bacteria hasn’t overcome. So much so that some companies are developing new drugs derived from concentrating natural antibacterial compounds.
The Speer/CCI Velocitor is THE BEST .22LR round, period.
Why? It always goes bang and the bullet is a 40gr. Gold Dot copper plated HP. This bullet stays together, goes deep, and expands moderately.
I have experienced one shot kills on coyotes with this round from 75m out of a rifle.
You do not want a fragmenting bullet in such a small caliber - you want it to hang together and balance penetration with expansion. The specs on some of these hypervelocity rounds like the Stinger look impressive but they are made for rats and squirrels, not overfed, oversized welfare bangers.
When I can’t carry a “real” gun, I carry a Berreta M21A semi-auto pistol in a pocket holster. I practice with it regularly and can fill a paper plate with 8 Velocitors from 25 ft rapid fire.
This is not the ideal self-defense gun but it is small, reliable, controllable, inconspicuous, and WHAT IS THE FIRST RULE OF GUNFIGHTING? Have a gun, of course!
A hit with a .22 is better than wishing you hadn’t left your .45ACP at home.
That sure sounds hopeful. I just read about these near-doomsday bugs like staff infections.
The guy holding it looks kinda nervous. Was that a before or after firing photo?
Now, it’s quite simple to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana. First of all you force him to drop the banana; then, second, you eat the banana, thus disarming him. But what happens if he’s got a bunch?
Also a real weapon and not a photoshop, btw!
Most people killed by gunfire in America are killed by 22s. Today’s high powered 22 ammo is vastly beyond what passed for 22 ammo 50 - 60 years ago. Any sort of a shot in the head will kill pretty nearly anything and two or three shots with HV hollow point ammo would substantially decrease the bellicosity level of most people or creatures.
**But what happens if he’s got a bunch?**
you counter attack with Ice cream, chocolate sauce and .... A CHERRY!!!
Yeah, the reason why the drug companies have been reluctant to use natural stuff is because they can’t patent a natural product. However, they are trying to isolate the specific compounds that make the natural antibiotics work, relicate that, and package that so perhaps their legal departments have found a way for them to patent it.
Lemon oils, oil of oregano, orange oil, lavender essential oil, all are extremely good antibiotic oils to keep on hand. Honey can help keep wounds (after cleaning and debriding of course) from developing infection. Even regular sugar can too - but the bandages, honey and sugar need to be changed a couple times a day. Vet meds you can pick up at a farm supply store can help against infections.
Keep that 94 clean. I bought a used one and had a lot of misfires that I blamed on ammo. Gave it a hyper cleaning and it rarely misfires now. I think the firing pin was gunked up but who knows.
Understandable, thanks.
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