Overemphasis on caliber? Expect too much from a handgun?

What I learned from this thread is what I already knew.

Keep shooting til the goat (or threat since I dont feel threatened by goats) is terminated, that includes the threat losing interest and deciding to chew on a tin can or thistle or climb a mountain.

Use the most effective gun you can all the time, every time.

In the 8 or 9 seconds the tests described as wait times, I might have emptied and reloaded several times. does that change the outcome at all?:rolleyes:
 
This is the only goat I'd be concerned with shooting more than once!

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On the original question... what you can expect from a handgun, in its better examples, is for it to knock a full-caliber hole through about 14-16 inches of tissue and bone.

How big that hole is, and where it goes, is up to you.
 
Ichiban...thanks for the reference to Dr. Fackler's book review on "Steet Stoppers". I've noted the reference page for further study... Rodfac
 
ZeSpectre wrote: "The fact that we don't like to consider (include me in this) is that handguns, ALL handguns, suck. Some may be worse than others but in terms of actual performance handguns are all pretty lousy."

EVERY dangerous game on the planet has been killed with a .44 magnum at one time or another. DON'T TRY TO TELL ME that "ALL hanguns, suck." I ain't buy'n it for one second.
 
44AMP wrote: "In the US, we have had a good century of "training" thanks to our entertainment industry, about what people do when shot. And in the last half century, it has gotten more and more fanciful and less real."

I've learned the good guys can soak up multiple hits and keep on fighting but the bad guys go down with a single shot!!
 
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