Even on neighborhood walks I’m carrying a 9mm. But I’m not sure how effective I’d be with 2 of those stinking beasts after me. Rattled nerves and all.
Under the genre of “It Happened to Me” stories in Combat Handgun magazine, an individual once submitted an account of walking his small dog when a seriously angry pit bull came barreling towards him from behind a house. He was carrying a Browning Hi Power and had to almost empty the magazine into it before it stopped. I think those old pistols held at most 13 rounds of 9mm.
On the other hand around the same time I read where a police officer put a pit down with 2 rounds of 40S&W.
“ Even on neighborhood walks I’m carrying a 9mm”
When it absolutely positively has to be killed, only a .357 magnum does it, every single time.
I walk 3-4 miles every day out here in the country. Experience tells me that when attacked by a dog, a person could have a shotgun in their hand and still would not have time to stop a charging dog from attacking.
Another thing I have figured out. Most times a dog alone might bark and threaten, but that is all. IF however the dogs owner is there too, that dog is much more likely to attack. He thinks he is protecting his owner.