stopping power

While I own auto's I am a revolver guy at heart and usually carry one. I have been looking at a lot of real life shooting channels on YT lately. While more prevelant in officer involved shootings, seems like a lot of semi-auto shooters are treating their pistols like "bullet hoses" just putting...

I was going through some of my old records and ran across a test where I shot off five rounds of 357 Magnum Federal 125 grain JHP, part number 357B. Yes, the magical stuff that has been touted as the best manstopper on the planet. At the time, I was working for a federal law enforcement agency...

We've had several threads recently that have shown, to my mind, inscrutable consistencies. One side always comes in with 'Handgun stopping power is a myth. and all handgun calibers are essentially within 20% effectiveness of each other. One poster asserted that the .357 Mag. is no more than...

Hunting season just ended here in the Great White North, and I bumped into a friend who told me his tale of this year's hunting trip. On the last day of his 4 day hunt he was in heavy brush and pretty discouraged thinking he was going home with empty game bags when a legal bull walked out of...

Hello, I have a black powder revolver for home defense. Why such outdated technology? Because I live in France and that's the only thing I can legally have without having a shooting or hunting licence and having to register it. France is getting more and more insecure and I don't see why I...