Recent content by Elmer

Well, if you claim to have all pertinent data for shootings you have in a database, and one of your "sources" publicly challenges you to provide the data sourced to him, and you can't, because the source says they never gave it to you, one might at least question the veracity of the rest of such...

Well, lacking knowledge of current copyrights, I'm reluctant to post any of my copies of IWBA or AFTE journals, but you might look and see if any websites still link to any of these for further study. Eugene Wolberg, Gary Roberts. "Book Review, Handgun Stopping Power: The Definitive Study."...

Everyone knows it's that ballistic pressure wave that does all the damage......

Yes, the discussion of how cartridges and projectiles can be vetted for use in self defense, and the science, or lack of, behind making those choices, has absolutely nothing to do with the question..... Wait.... "Ask anyone if they want to get shot with a .380"!!! Or, "I know a guy that...

It's disconcerting that people still quote "data", discredited as falsified years ago. But as I said, many seem to enjoy fiction.

There certainly have been legitimate attempts to collect data on shootings by some LE organizations, to try and understand terminal effects. But in no case have they ever issued numerical grades to various projectiles abilities to achieve "one shot stops", because of those anomalies you...

Probably a blanket company policy to insure no customer has ammo they didn't intend on ordering. In this case perhaps not a big deal, but in some cases incorrectly sending ammo could potentially be dangerous to fire in the wrong gun. And in our litigious society, firing say an overloaded .45...

It's important to realize that the modern wound ballistics community, have never been the ones to assign mathematic "statistics" to bullet performance in shootings, with a bent to predict perfomance. Statistics about "one shot stops" are meaningless, because how one person reacts to being...

What I said exactly was.. "The reason the "real world" "one shot stop" statistics went away, is that it was all fiction." The "studies" purporting to assign numerical values to "one shot stops"........ were fiction. I agree. Many people seem to enjoy fiction.

I didn't mean to say "no agency ever reported honest statistics", I meant to say those who claimed to actually have such statistics, and correlated them into "one shot stop" charts, were fiction. Of course reproducible testing doesn't include all the variables, but somehow you believe that...

That doesn't put you in a great position to survive. Maybe either think about carrying something you shoot better, or seek some professional instruction? Small guns like yours are definitely harder to master, but there's no reason someone with a modicum of physical capability can't learn to...

The reason the "real world" "one shot stop" statistics went away, is that it was all fiction. Replaced by scientific, reproducible testing, that gives a reasonable simulation of what a particular projectile will do in human tissue. Exactly where you place them, in who, and what their...

Ammunition plays a part here. There have been a couple of .22 mag loads designed for self defense. Their performance will be better than a load designed to shoot small varmints with.

This. The infighting and bickering about the 2A organizations has cost us dearly. The NRA isn't perfect, and they've made mistakes. But they're still the 600 lb gorilla. The enormous amount of money they spent on the 2016 race got Trump elected, according to both Trump and Hilary. If the...

You should have bought a powerball ticket.