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...trying to get people to change what they are carrying. I do think it's very important for them to understand what their realistic limitations** are when carrying a particular gun and that it's also very critical to not screw up the decision making process involved in choosing what to carry...

Can you shoot it rapidly without having to readjust your grip in between shots?

...to decide which gun you are NOT going to carry? I'm going to bet that the answer is: "None.". The point is that if a person decides not to carry**, it doesn't matter what gun they decide not to carry. Therefore it doesn't make sense for someone to base their carry gun choice on the idea...

None of us are properly prepared for everything, nor could anyone ever be. That's not justification for not preparing for anything. We can prepare for some scenarios (based on the limitations of the "system" that is us + our carry gun) while understanding that there are other scenarios that...

Not in the sense of determining what sort of gun to buy/carry and what sort of preparation/training one needs to do. If a person decides not to carry, it doesn't matter what gun they decide not to carry. When you decide to leave the house without a gun, do you spend a lot of time trying to...

You must have missed post #49 on this thread.

I see we're circling back around to one of the topics from early in the thread. Deciding whether or not to carry is one decision. This is where the probability of needing a firearm should be considered. AFTER that decision has been made, then one decides what sort of scenarios they want to...

There is no doubt that it is extremely important. People can save themselves a tremendous amount of trouble by learning the skill. It not only helps exit from confrontations unharmed, it also helps avoid confrontations in the first place. When one knows in advance that they are not going to...

Hey! Look at that, real data. It shows kind of what I expected. I wasn't expecting revolver numbers to have grown that much, but I did expect to see the percentage dropping. Thanks for putting that together.

A very important strategy, to be sure. THE most important? I don't know. The reason I say that is that it's applicable to only one type of potential attack--disagreements that become physical. An armed robbery isn't really a disagreement, nor is a home invasion or a mass shooting. There...

The assumptions are not carved in stone. A different set of assumptions (different hit rate, different number of hits required for "success") can be used if desired. As far as a "predestined conclusion", I've already pointed out that: 1.) I didn't know what the results would be when I first...

Yes, people tend to get a bit excited in gunfights and that's not good for accuracy. That's a big reason why we see such low hit rates. Maybe sometimes, but other times it just means that they fire rapidly in the perp's directly and run out of rounds faster than they would if they had more...

I think that's an accurate assessment. If an attacker is inclined to give up/flee when the shooting starts, then the problem is tremendously simplified and issues like capacity, accuracy, speed of fire, etc. become minimally important. Those are pretty much no-win situations regardless of what...

I don't even bother getting IWB holsters for guns that are not pretty compact. Part of that is because I'm not open to buying different sized pants to wear when carrying. Largest IWB carry for me is a Kahr P9.

If you can consistently hitting running targets the size of rabbits at 15 to 25 yards with a snubby and have good reason to believe you could still do so while being shot at and moving to avoid being killed, then you should ignore everything in this thread and immediately get a sponsorship to...

Some knife companies would put company logos on knives. I have a friend with a genuine Victorinox SAK that was also stamped with the logo of a company he used to work for. Pretty neat.

A 70% hit rate would be pretty impressive in a gunfight. Typical LE average gunfight hit rates are about 30%. I haven't run any numbers for 3 attackers. However, one of the assumptions in the calculation is that the defender has the chance to expend all of the rounds available before being...

Yes, one should expect, in general, that doubling/tripling the number of hits required will at least double/triple the rounds needed to achieve a given probability of making a given number of hits, all else being equal. Correct. It's not even based on watching videos. It is an assumption and...

...no misunderstanding, I will modify my earlier statement to reflect that fact: "The results surprised me and, I think, they surprised most people* who have seen them." *But not everyone, and certainly not JimCunn. I've already explained why they surprised me, and since I'm pretty much the...

Here's a more thorough treatment of the topic including success defined as 2 hits. https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/thoughts-on-multiple-assailants-hit-rate-capacity.665883/ If you know what the results will be, there's no need to ask for more results or to bother running the...