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    .380 ACP the Red Haired Stepchild?

    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...
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    .380 ACP the Red Haired Stepchild?

    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."...
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    .380 ACP the Red Haired Stepchild?

    Everyone knows it's that ballistic pressure wave that does all the damage......
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    .380 ACP the Red Haired Stepchild?

    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...
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    .380 ACP the Red Haired Stepchild?

    It's disconcerting that people still quote "data", discredited as falsified years ago. But as I said, many seem to enjoy fiction.
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    .380 ACP the Red Haired Stepchild?

    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...
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    UNDERWOOD Shipping Mistake?

    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...
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    .380 ACP the Red Haired Stepchild?

    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...
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    .380 ACP the Red Haired Stepchild?

    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.
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    .380 ACP the Red Haired Stepchild?

    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...
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    .380 ACP the Red Haired Stepchild?

    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...
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    .380 ACP the Red Haired Stepchild?

    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...
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    .22 WMR ? No place in SD?

    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.
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    It's time, stop stalling, join now

    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...
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    .410 ga. in revolver for handy varmint control

    You should have bought a powerball ticket.
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    .410 ga. in revolver for handy varmint control

    I wish S&W made that gun with just a .45 Colt/ACP cylinder and a 4" barrel. Now, that would make a neat trail/house gun.
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    .410 ga. in revolver for handy varmint control

    My buddy was given judge as a present, and using it as his "tractor gun" is the only good use he can find for. Works great for killing birds and varmints close up. 15 yards is probably pushing it though. If you can find one of the old "Snake Charmer" .410's, they actually made a holster...
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    Not a single new .22LR SP101 at the Gun Show

    Nope. Like I said. I've watched them make guns, and I know people that work there. Ruger could make more SP101 .22's this week, than they could sell in a year. They are running them in smaller batches, trying to hit a balance between filling potential orders, and not stacking them up...
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    Not a single new .22LR SP101 at the Gun Show

    No Vern, ...maybe a little faster than they projected sales would be. Ruger is capable of turning out guns in astonishing numbers, when they have the orders for them. I've watched them do it in person, even before they further streamlined their manufacturing. Sales for quality .22...
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    Not a single new .22LR SP101 at the Gun Show

    I think the market for $600 .22 target revolvers is pretty soft. Ruger is likely only doing short runs of them at a time.
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