How many of you want to be shot 6 or a total of 11 times with a 22 hollow point? This is a guy that thinks before he acts! Im glad you told this story. You were wise with your choice sir. And with some time spent getting to know the firearm, I would bet that will have all the confidence to upgrade to something more powerfull.
But whats important is the person holding the firearm be comfortable enough to use it properly if forced to. And good luck! Nobody does. I had a friend that I can recall laughing about another friend of ours for carrying a He was a hell of a man in size and strenghth.
Buit that way naturally and just a big ol county boy by birth. Ironically he was shot with a 22 a couple of years later and died. He was a fine man but the point being it went in his abdomun and ricocheted.
Its quiet but deadly and this I know. I personally carry a 45 but the 22 will end things and is not to be laughed at. Sorry about your friend but my Dad spent most of my childhood in the army and was in Vietnam and he carried a high standard. He grew up a country boy and admitted he shot more deer with a. I know that a. I use handloads and in my Glock 17 and I watched a off duty police officer shoot his Glock 17 at a burning barrel and only dent it and then I shot it and went through both sides.
So really your ammo is the key. Actually you are much more likely to have 44 pieces of bullets ricochet off everything half ass solid in your home leaving everybody shot, including yourself and other innocent people that you may be attempting to protect. Everybodys situation is unique, but certain factors are universal. Your ammunition must be dictated firstly by the environment which you are likely to use the firearm.
Whats the length of your largest room or longest hallway. I doubt its nowhere near feet long. Also the smaller the caliber bullet, the less penetration you will get out of it. So 1 side of that coin will leave you with 44 fragments of bullets bouncing off everything in the house until it hits something soft enough to lodge into.
The other side of that coin is for example a. This bullet is going to punch through multible walls if not every wall in your home. Depending on your home of course. But if you live in a manufactured home. Expect evry round you fire to penetrate every wall in your home including the exterior wall and continue sailing with enough force to kill someone outside.
Not to mention whoever else may be in those rooms inside your house. Apartments are the worst! With this the case. Might point is factual. Not arguementable. So which caliber is best?
That depends on your situation. And your situation will prob change each time you move to another residence. Soooo, and heres where the cry babies can argue with me if you want. I wont see it anyway. One of the most versatile weapons made. There are hundreds of different types of shotgun shells made from hundreds of manufactures.
Versatility is the reason its my personal choice. And each has the stopping power to stop anything with 1 shot. My closest neighbors on each side were about 50 yards away. My round of choice there was number 1 buckshot. One squeeze and you let loose 18 thirty two caliber rouns. I live alone. So having the option to shoot through any 1 of my walls fit me perfectly. Now I have not a single neighbor for a qrtr mile min. My choice is oo Buckshot. Anyone caught in the beam is gonna take a second to wonder what the hell is happening.
The light paints your target but most of all it allows you to positively identify friend from foe. People, when shitgoes down, its not like the movies. Shit gets REAL.
You will prob make a mistake. Just control that adrenaline, focus, identify your target. Take it out with as few rounds as possible for legal reasons and ALWAYS be aware of where everyone in your home is at before you even consisder deadly force. Also get to know your weapon. The first time you have to use it should not be the first time you EVER used it. Shoot straight and watch your background.
Well put! Another consideration that coincides with intentional discharge of your chosen deterrent.. Trying emptying a magazine in your hallway and then tell me you or anyone in your home you are trying to defend can hear you, or will you be able to hear invader movement.
Take extreme care after you have drilled the intruder, is the next movement you see hostile of friendly? Speaking of combat….. I personally carry my. The ballistics are close to a 9mm Luger, just a less charge due to the 2mm shorter case length 9X19 vs 9X My particular. Also, it is a DA Double Action only.
If push came to shove and you have only that one weapon, by all means, carry it. Which is more important, the ability to respond to a deadly attack with a gun that you can shoot easily, using sights you can see, a trigger that you can manipulate properly, a gun which fills your hand in order to contribute to repeat, accurate shots as long as you need to shoot, firing a cartridge that has the ability to stop an attacker with several shots—even a six and a half foot tall drug addict out of his mind on drugs who only sees you as an impediment to his next score, and who will not feel the same pain you feel when you stub your toe hit your head on a door jamb….
If you decide to carry a gun, do it because you feel it is worthwhile to keep deadly force on your person in order to respond to the worst moment of your life, should that rare occurrence ever come. Do it because you wish to take your own personal protection and that of your loved ones, if applicable as a personal responsibility. And as a personal responsibility, you have decided that if attacked with deadly force, you are willing and able to respond with deadly force.
I cannot stress accurately enough. We underestimate how badly we will shoot under the stress of DYING or seeing our loved ones attacked. First of all,. Second, no caliber not even the. I would bet my entire nutsack which is not much that just one. Glad you did not have to shoot at them,people are one thing but nature is an altogether different ballgame. If you get that perfect shot placement, at the close enough range, it can still kill.
Very true and I knew a good man that is longer here because of this very thing happening. One shot in the abdomen and it was over. He was much bigger than the average man too but it didnt make a difference. There was an altercation with another guy that was obviously intimidated and that was all she wrote.
Sometimes they round things off to make a nice marketing name such as the. Both the. For example, a grain GMX bullet could be loaded and fired out of either cartridge. Bullet designs are mostly interchangeable between cartridges of the same caliber. However, the. The gauge of a shotgun goes down as the caliber goes up. For instance, the standard gauge is equal to a 0. These formidable weapons were used for commercial hunting, bringing down whole flocks of wildfowl with a single blast.
They were later taken up by sportsmen. Too heavy to be lifted, the punt gun was fired from a rest in a one-man boat. The barrel was equivalent to a 1. Punt gunning proved so effective at killing flocks of birds that many states outlawed it by But, needless to say, someone had to build a handgun capable of firing it.
The bullets are about six times the size of a standard 9-millimeter round, but the weight of the gun makes the recoil manageable. The prize for packing the most punch onto a mobile platform goes to the celebrated Davy Crockett recoilless spigot gun, the smallest nuclear weapon ever deployed. The gun, developed in the s for a potential war against the Soviet Union, had a small-caliber piston four or six inches inserted into the barrel and attached to an inch warhead.
Contrary to myth, the crew were indeed outside the danger zone. When the biggest existing caliber is not big enough, you have to make your own—and that's exactly what J. Jones , president of SSK Industries, did. He created a record-breaking. And looking at the ballistic performance graph below, the hottest.
We have a list of some of the best revolvers chambered for the. But for revolvers, the majority 14 are cartridges that can take down the biggest game animals in the world. Why is that? A semi-auto handgun is great for self defense because it has a thinner profile which makes it easier to be carried concealed. But the thicker revolver frame can withstand more punishment from the most powerful cartridges. While there are quite a number of people who have taken down up to elk- and bear-size game with.
This is why I decided not to include the. Instead, the bare minimum I would recommend for big game is the. Ruger has some Blackhawks and there are a few Dan Wesson revolvers floating around for sale on the interwebz. The Taurus Raging Bull in. Personally I think the. Other supposedly weaker caliber wildcat rounds like the. In this list, we broke down the categories of caliber based on the launching platform and intended use of the gun.
We understand that there are many ways to categorize handguns, but we found that this was the most relevant because it allows you to make your decision based on what the gun is used for.
This allows you to match your wants with a choice from our list. However, it is also understandable that things can start to get confusing pretty fast! Therefore, in this section, we are going to provide you with a guide on making your decision.
As you know, we divided these guns into categories based on their usage, and then compared them on three key factors — bullet velocity, muzzle energy, and price. With the above information in mind, we recommend you consider one key thing before you make your decision — what do you want out of your gun? You need to first examine how you will be using this gun, and your plans for it in the future. Our list is extensive, with many different options, so reading it over without knowing what you are looking for might leave some confusion.
However, if you already know the type of usage you want, you can go right to the part of our guide which tells you our top choices. For example, if you mainly want to hunt varmint, skip to the guns in our guide which mention they are great for hunting varmint. Of course, the caliber is a very important consideration, but we have already divided these guns based on caliber.
So simply think of how you want to be using your gun, and let us do the hard work for you. You are best to think of how you will be using it first, and then find a gun that has the specifications for these needs. There are a ton of handgun calibers available out there.
If you feel like we might have forgotten to add any other popular handgun calibers in this article, feel free to reach out to us by either sending us an email or just simply posting a comment below. A firearms and ballistics enthusiast and an outdoorsman, Mike is one of Gun News Daily's best contributing authors.
He's a researcher, data analyst and writer by trade and strongly adheres to conservatism—a stalwart of the right to keep and bear arms.
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