“Pit bulls are one of the reasons I’m getting my ccw. If one bites me or my lab puppy, I will blow its head off.”
A thing about shooting feral dogs.. and pitbulls.
A dog doesn’t understand the concept of “BANG”. When a person is shot, their minds process the event as “I’ve been shot”. Dogs and other wildlife do not understand what the bang means, and if they are charging you they don’t care either. So when you shoot a charging animal you’ll find that you aren’t stopping it.
A dog is designed for forward motion. Every muscle in it’s body is designed to move forward. That means that the charging animal is going to take more, per mass, than any other creature (Man) to take down. So while a man will stop charging when hit by a .22 an Animal won’t stop until you choose a round so large that it actually disrupts muscle groups. In other words, the animal will need to have large chunks of muscle removed from it’s skeleton in order to stop it from charging.
If you live in an area with feral packs, your challenges have only begun. It’s why I paid $1200 for an FN Five-seveN. Living in CT (A sh!thole country) I was surrounded by packs of feral pitbulls. Dogs don’t care about watching another dog getting shot, and during a charge or hunt they don’t care about the bang either.
My experience comes from one of these encounters with a 9mm Glock. A standard capacity mag was enough to get 2 dogs held back while I ran. There were more than 10 and I wound up getting bit quite a bit while getting into someone’s porch for protection. It was scary, but I learned a lot.
When I’m nature walking I’m carrying a large bowie (Large enough that I can use) and a large caliber pistol round with some real muscle-shredding power. I also carry a lot of rounds now.
Good luck with your CCW And if you want to hear more experiences and advice, hit me up.
Sounds to me like you were fighting a pack. That’s much worse than a single dog.
Do you honestly think that police dogs just keep going if some thug gets in a good shot? They’re trained to do so, but sometimes they’re just knocked cold. But then, they only have their human handler and maybe some others to back them up. Not quite the same as a hunting pack of just dogs.
I’d venture a guess as to stopability:
-single normal dog
-pack of dogs
-PBT
-pack of PBTs (they’re not normal)
“A dog doesn’t understand the concept of “BANG”.”
Some evidently do. I chased a whole pack of dogs off my property long ago with a .22 revolver. They ran as if the devil were chasing them as soon as I fired the first round into the dirt. They were following a bitch in heat and one of them that looked to be about half pit bull started at me in a trot as if he thought he could take me down. I fired the first round to hit about three feet in front of him and he reversed direction and the whole crew was out of sight in seconds.
Whoa...that’s an eye opening story. Never thought about from that perspective.