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<blockquote data-quote="Rod Snell" data-source="post: 2888364" data-attributes="member: 796"><p>"All other things being equal...." and they never are.</p><p>Sure, you can accumulate statistics, but statistics applied to a sample of ONE have a confidence factor of ZERO. (I teach this stuff)</p><p>The outcome on the ONE person you shoot is binary: either they stop or they don't.</p><p>And sometimes a person absorbs an entire magazine of .45 and has to be clubbed down to get the cuffs on.</p><p>The Hatcher experiments 100 years ago concluded a pistol bullet the size of an orange would guarantee one-shot stops, but not much else would.</p><p>I read the accounts of the Philippine uprising and the famous failures of the .38 pistols to stop Maori, but was surprised to learn rifle shots in the chest weren't stopping them either!</p><p>Sentries were advised to shoot them in the pelvis area with a rifle to try to knock them down before they could reach the sentry with their knives.</p><p></p><p>So what do I get from all this?</p><p>I carry a caliber generally used for defense in a gun I can shoot well, and am mentally prepared to shoot if necessary and keep shooting until the threat is stopped.</p><p>I also believe that none of the IDPA time is wasted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod Snell, post: 2888364, member: 796"] "All other things being equal...." and they never are. Sure, you can accumulate statistics, but statistics applied to a sample of ONE have a confidence factor of ZERO. (I teach this stuff) The outcome on the ONE person you shoot is binary: either they stop or they don't. And sometimes a person absorbs an entire magazine of .45 and has to be clubbed down to get the cuffs on. The Hatcher experiments 100 years ago concluded a pistol bullet the size of an orange would guarantee one-shot stops, but not much else would. I read the accounts of the Philippine uprising and the famous failures of the .38 pistols to stop Maori, but was surprised to learn rifle shots in the chest weren't stopping them either! Sentries were advised to shoot them in the pelvis area with a rifle to try to knock them down before they could reach the sentry with their knives. So what do I get from all this? I carry a caliber generally used for defense in a gun I can shoot well, and am mentally prepared to shoot if necessary and keep shooting until the threat is stopped. I also believe that none of the IDPA time is wasted. [/QUOTE]
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