I agree that if the wound is fatal or not, is of no consiquence to me in a firefight. All I am interested in doing is incapacitating the bad guy as quickly as possible.
I am not an expert, but in my mind shot placement is much more important than size when talking 45 vs 9mm. We had a case here in the city I live where a policeman reached into a car to stop a kid with a stolen car from running over people in a parking lot. The kid took off & the policeman got caught and was dragged to his death. He shot the driver fatally, but the driver was able to speed off, go back to his apartment, get picked up by an ambulance, and died about two hours after being shot, in the hospital. A fatal wound, but of no help to the officer, who was draged about half a mile to his death.
Incapacitation asap should be your only goal IMHO.
TKL
I am not an expert, but in my mind shot placement is much more important than size when talking 45 vs 9mm. We had a case here in the city I live where a policeman reached into a car to stop a kid with a stolen car from running over people in a parking lot. The kid took off & the policeman got caught and was dragged to his death. He shot the driver fatally, but the driver was able to speed off, go back to his apartment, get picked up by an ambulance, and died about two hours after being shot, in the hospital. A fatal wound, but of no help to the officer, who was draged about half a mile to his death.
Incapacitation asap should be your only goal IMHO.
TKL