Clark said:
You should wear a head band that says, "I am ignorant of Clark's handloads"
1) My Browning 1903 .380:
a) Winchester factory ammo is power factor 76
b) my handload is PF 186.
2) Kel-Tec P3AT:
a) my hand load is power factor 99.
Clark, perhaps we can compromise on something that expresses both our feelings. How about:
"I DON'T KNOW ABOUT CLARK MAGNUSON'S HANDLOADS..."
Could you put your engineering skills to work one more time and, using the same Power Factor formula you used above, tell the good people on this thread where a factory .45 ACP 230 grain JHP at 880 feet per second would rate, just for purposes of comparison and perspective? Or a factory 125 grain .357 at, say, 1400 fps?
Seriously, it's sad to see that overworn "struck by lightning" thing brought out again.
In your post just before this one, you write, "That would make being killed by lightning nearly the same risk as court trouble from handloads if MO ever produces a court case."
First, please tell us all what "MO" stands for.
But second, and much more important, you're lying again.
Your statement clearly implies that there have been such cases. But you KNOW there have been. I have named them on "the other forum," and I have named them here on this very thread, and even people on your side of this argument have looked them up and acknowledged they exist.
In short, Clark, you're lying to these people...AGAIN!
For the sake of winning your argument, you are overlooking their best interests and completely ignoring the fact that once the defensive handgun actually has to be fired to fulfill its intended purpose, the likelihood of a hostile legal action of one kind or another now becomes huge. Ask any police instructor or administrator on this thread about that likelihood.
Now, take a look at the last few issues of American Rifleman, or any other NRA publication that carries their Armed Citizen column, that you might have lying around. Read each one, and calculate how many shootings occur within "powder burning distance" where GSR might be deposited.
As was explained to folks on the "other" thread, and needs to be explained here again after your most recent post, your argument is akin to Clark Magnuson saying "You don't need seat belts, becaust most auto accidents don't end up with someone flying through the windshield." Logical-minded readers of the thread would answer, "Clark, one reason they don't fly through windshields is that they ARE wearing seat belts!"
In your postulation, you are conveniently and deliberately ignoring the fact that the reason there aren't more handload-related fights is that almost nobody gets shot with handloads! Virtually ALL the cops and the overwhelming majority of armed citizens load factory ammo. You're telling them to leave a place of safety on this issue and go to a place of danger. Bad advice, IMHO.
And, while you're doing your statistical prestidigitation, why don't you explain how these folks can, without duplicating a factory load and creating a mere cheap imitation, come up with a handload has a proven track record on the street, given the fact that the overwhelming majority of shootings DO involve factory loads instead of reloads?
Finally, for anyone who came in late, you won't get the whole deal on this until you read the whole thread, AND go back to the Glock Talk postings where Clark began this flame war. The links were posted by BlackWidow, if my memory serves, on the first page of this thread.