Posted by
abowlieb:
I carry Six in my pistol and two speed loaders. That is more then enough for anything I will run into.
That would probably be true--
if you had any chance at all of reloading twice during a defensive encounter.
I would not expect to be able to reload once until after the event is over.
Do u expect 10 armed people to come after you?
No.
As a matter of fact, I do not
expect anyone to come after me.
Do you think you will need all those rounds to kill, stop or scare one person?
I have absolutely no idea. I may, or I may not. That will be determined by whether I have to shoot in the first place; whether a psychological stop occurs, or if is necessary to effect a physical stop; and how many rounds I have to fire to hit something vital that will effect that physical stop.
By the way, if one
is attacked, all indications are that one will face two or more assailants.
Do they think it will be like the old west where u duck behind a car n shoot at each other for 30mins?
Not those who have availed themselves of any training.
And that brings up a very important point. Enroll in a good defensive handgun shooting course. See how you do with your handgun. You will find that is is nothing like "target practice".
Then try some FoF training with simunitions, or perhaps a laser training facility with the gun "loaded" with various numbers of "rounds".
Either should give you some idea of how often your six rounds will suffice (you should certainly expect them to get you to safety
sometimes), except that with laser training, any shot counties as a stop, and that is rather unrealistic.
In one of the Personal Defense Network premium videos (I do recommend subscribing), you can watch a well known trainer engage two armed robbers in a very sort scan of time--seconds, in fact--in a laser simulator at a Gander Mountain Academy. He ended up firing nine or ten shots very quickly--quickly enough, as it turned out, but he did miss with some of them. And again, each "hit" counted as a stop.
After all of that, decide for yourself.