Well, thanks for the critique on my accuracy... .which can be corrected by adjusting the sights.
I've argued large/slow vs. smaller/fast for perhaps the past 40 years or so. I've read the Ed Sanow articles on "best" self defense caliber (at the time, was .357 mag 125gr HP load).... I've read actual accounts of shootings, one guy shot in the back 6 time with a .45 ACP, then walking to the hospital and checking himself in, saw a video of a state trooper dash cam where he shot the bad guy 3 or 4 times with his service gun and the bad guy shot him once with a .22.... the trooper sat down and died after about 3 or 4 minutes (through the heart) and the bad guy survived.
Bottom line.... there is no "magic" caliber. It's all about shot placement and bullet penetration. Shoot someone with a quality bullet in a .380 center mass, and they go down. Shoot someone off center with a .44 or .45, and they keep going.
No matter what Hollywood says, most people shot with a handgun can keep functioning for many seconds, if not minutes... unless you hit the central nervous system.
Can't argue with that reasoning bro!! makes too much sense.
Nevertheless, citing unique circumstances, while informative, isn't the norm... would you agree?
Yeah, a well-placed shot with a 22 beats a poor shoot with a 50. Okay, I get that.
But in the average, both shooters are going to be missing the mark. And because of that... you shoot me in the arm with your (and Ed's) smalls, when I shoot you in the arm with a 50... you tell me, who's day is going to be the sadder for it? Who is going to bleed out before sunset?
You shoot me in the heart with a 22... I shoot you in the with a 50, we're both dead.
I'd like to think that, by seconds or fractions thereof, you will die first.