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- Oct 3, 2012
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What is your take on this article BBI?
Stopping Power, From a Doctor's Point of View - The Truth About Guns
I’m not sure what would happen if there were no more internet discussions about “stopping power” as applied to handguns. What would we talk about? I am sure that it would be a better world, and there would be lots more available bandwidth.www.thetruthaboutguns.com
I skimmed it. I agree shot placement is king and stopping power is bull. But a lot of what he says "we don't know" is more properly "he doesn't know". I don't know what kind of doctor he is and don't care, but there's no shortage of real world gunshots to compare to ballistic testing analogues, and "we" know pretty well which ones are directly comparable to real world results and which aren't. "We" know pretty well which rounds cause remote damage and which don't. That's one reason cartridges that are on major contracts tend to get more development and why bullet development hasn't been equal across the board. None of the big players are going to put the work in to, say .44 Special, because why bother for the number of people interested. Nothing wrong with the cartridge or the concept, it's just not something any significant number of people who buy a significant amount of ammunition care about.