re: Smallish caliber pistol

I’ve also seen a video from lucky gunner where he discusses ballistics and interviews the ballistics guys who work for Federal. Their conclusion is that people stress too much about handgun ballistics and wound channels when in reality, the ballistics between handgun calibers are not different enough to matter that much compared to shot placement. Because a 44 mag is not significantly enough bigger or faster moving than a .380 to matter that much. With either caliber, a bodily organ has to be hit directly by the bullet to be damaged (only rifle bullets are fast enough to cause shock damage to tissue that has not been directly hit). The human body is elastic and will spring back and close the temporary wound channel caused by any handgun (but not rifle). So moral of the story, shot placement is everything which means shoot the caliber that is most comfortable for you and don’t even worry about “stopping power” (although I don’t recall if their conclusion accounts for mouse guns).

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The human body is elastic and will spring back and close the temporary wound channel caused by any handgun (but not rifle).

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Uh...I do not know where you got that from. I saw a guy shot with a 45acp using ball ammo from 8yds and it blew parts of his lungs thru the back of the couch he was sitting in.