My sole advice...get a larger caliber gun...you want no one on the plantiff stand in some lawyer induced suit against you.
A .22 wouldn’t be my first choice either, but maybe she had small hands and weak wrists and didn’t want to deal with the recoil of a larger caliber. Nevertheless, what she had apparently got the job done. The best gun to use is the one you have.
In this case the smaller gun was the best, at least the POS got to hurt for a little while.
My sole advice is to quit the armchair QB bitching on these self-defense threads.
It happens on every thread, FReepers bloviating about what type of caliber the victim should have used or where she should have aimed.
>>My sole advice...get a larger caliber gun...you want no one on the plantiff stand in some lawyer induced suit against you.<<
Reality is that the doctors were the ones who finished this guy. They had to cut him every way from Sunday to stop the internal bleeding and remove the half dozen bullets she put in him. A .22 bullet will bounce, hop and ricochet inside a person like a rapper at a prom dance. Up, down, around and around.
The best part is that she was able to handle her little .22 that everyone considers so insufficient to do the job. The fact that it wasn’t doing any immediate visually stunning damage to the attacker as we see on TV shows is what would prompt her to aim better and keep firing.
What caliber do ranchers use to put down injured stock? Yup, if a .22 will drop a 1400 pound cow as fast as a lighting bolt will, it’ll take a man down too.
“”My sole advice...get a larger caliber gun””
When you can hit all the vital spots with 10 out of 11 bullets, the caliber won’t matter. That’s what happened in this case. The investigators said that only one bullet went astray. She emptied the .22 clip and was reaching for her .38 when the creep exited the house through the back and she fled from the front...