What You Need to Know About Stopping Power

[daddyo]

Interesting. If you read this, be sure to pay attention to what he says about the .22, .25, .32, and .380 rounds...

What You Need to Know About Stopping Power

[monkeylizard]

Good read and a good reminder that what you hit matters a lot more than what you hit it with.

[hipower]

"The secret to handgun stopping power remains to be where you shoot your opponent and how many times you shoot them."

After all the discussion in the world about guns, caliber, and loads; this still is what it all comes down to. Training to get accuracy. Training in all types of shooting possible. Whehter it be static range time, IDPA, or any form of organized shooting or competition, advanced shooting and tactics of survival and evasion; it still comes down to one thing.

Shot placement.

[daddyo]

Seemed to me he was referring to shot placement with a sufficient caliber to get the job done.

[DaveTN]

To bad you can’t test your own ability for shot placement in a real life shooting. I’ve experienced it and I’m sure not throwing caliber out the window.

Stop the threat; make your opponent unwilling or unable to fire his weapon at you.

That involves… your accuracy and the energy of the round.

If you can do that with a .22 or a .380; more power to you.

It's not a secret.

[Jonnin]

Not bad but he forgot the gun (this does not really matter). The gun in question changes the recoil, accuracy, velocity, control, and more --- all the factors he sort of pins onto the ammo type alone (9mm vs .22 sort of thing). Sure went over a lot of unrelated stuff to finish up. The whole thing can be reduced to "hit vital anatomy with the most powerful thing you can use/control/carry in your circumstances". Also I would say that typical gun owners shoot for fun, and therefore shoot more often than many cops. Its not always hard core training shooting, but when it comes to hitting what you aim at and handling recoil, a typical gun owner is going to have that stuff under control. Maybe there are a lot of HCP folks that never shoot, I don't know any of them but it seems likely, esp in antigun areas of the country.