Not if that's the range that is of interest.When you set the question within the narrow limits of caliber you make a significant error.
In this case, it is exactly the range that is of interest since we're discussing a caliber in the service pistol performance class.
What doesn't make sense is to try to widen the scope to include discussions of calibers outside of the range that is of interest.
Yeah, that's exactly my point. Except that I go further and say that it doesn't make a practical difference because no one has been able to show that it does. If it did make a practical difference, then it would be relatively simple to show it existed.All these caliber overlap in power in a number of their loads and have only small differences in diameter that may or may not, the diameter that is, make a difference.
Ok, if you prefer, I will restate my comment.The real issue is with the way the question here is posed. You employ caliber, rather than power.
"What differences do the power differences in the service pistol performance class make in terms of the speed in stopping fights and what do the power differences in the service pistol performance class make in terms of the number of shots required by each of the members in the class to get the job done compared to others in the class?"
We can talk about caliber, or we can talk about the power differences due to caliber. It doesn't really make any difference how it's couched. The bottom line is that no one has any evidence that the terminal balllistics due to caliber/power differences within the class of interest make any practically significant difference in the outcome of the real-world shootings.
Clearly that's the question that is important to you. If that's true, then you're done. You can look at the differences in terminal ballistics and make the call based on that.If we ask does better bullet construction and more energy aid in terminal performance?
I've said repeatedly that I don't care about that for the simple reason that no one has been able to show that the differences in terminal ballistics within service pistol performance class make any practically significant difference in the outcome of real-world shootings.
If you want to hang your hat on differences that no one can prove actually make a difference on the street, then that's your prerogative. I choose not to go that direction. I choose to ignore an "advantage" that no one can prove even exists in preference for the many advantages that even the most oblivious people can see do exist and are practically significant.
IF there really were a practically significant difference in the street performance, there would be a very simple real-world way of proving it.You also ask a question that has no real world meaning because there is no real world way of proving it, or even showing it, one way or another.
It is precisely the fact that no one has been able to prove that there's any difference in real-world performance that makes it obvious that the difference can't be practically significant.
For decades people have been working this problem looking for the proof that there's a difference in real-world shooting performance and yet no one has been able to find the difference. Some people want to believe so badly that that this difference that is so elusive that no one can prove it exists is really there that they miss the obvious. If it's impossible to show it exists (as you admit), how can it provide a practical benefit? How could a practical benefit be undetectable?
If there were a practical benefit in real-world shootings, then, by definition, it would be possible to demonstrate that difference by looking at the outcome of real world shootings.
An excellent choice of words.It's a mystical question.
It's not a mystical question for me. I look for evidence and no one has any. I decide that if there's a difference that is so small no one can find it even after decades of looking, it can't be practically significant. So I dismiss it and move on.
It's only mystical to people who choose to keep believing in something that no one can prove exists.