[hiredhand]

LOL

I like to do the math

230 gr
900 fps
490+ ft lbs of energy
dumped into ‘about’ a half inch.

I like those numbers....

I know people are just going to think I'm gross. But if I MUST stop another human being by issuing deadly force, bearing in mind that this action of stopping them is probably going to kill them... I don't want to have to watch them squirt blood everywhere from a smaller handgun wound, and cry and shout and thrash around for a couple of minutes before finally dying. I just don't want the mental anguish and aggravation.

That's the main reason I carry a full sized semi-auto (Colt Series 80, .45ACP). It's gross I know, but that's the reason!

[mad_as_he$$]

Nothing gross about it. Simple logic. Remember what Clint from Thunder Ranch says “Every bullet you shoot has a lawyer attached to it.” Better to not have a live bad guy to retain an lawyer. It also is IMPERATIVE that if you shoot someone that when the cops show up YOU DEMAND they be cuffed and arrested.