FBI Handgun Wounding Factors and Effectiveness study,

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Originally Posted by Amorok

So carrying .45 Hornady taps or Speer Gold Dots is a waste of money, I should just switch to a .32? Thanks for the info, now I'll save money AND get killed.

That's the problem with only reading part of someone's post.....you miss the important stuff.


Ball ammo is FMJ round nose......it has completely different shooting and wounding characteristics than JHP ammo.

The original point of the post (if you go back to the biginning) is a twenty-year old study on relative effectiveness. There is no doubt that a .45 Silvertip is superior in every way to a .32 Silvertip...that' snot my point..


...not everybody can carry a full size auto or wheelgun; those with small frames, petite hands, or who are flinch prone to large caliber recoil/noise or live in warmer climes (pretty hard to hide that Ruger in your bikini drawers, but easy to put that Seecamp .32 in a small handbag). My point was, that based on relative stopping power, that .32 packed with Gold Dots is an adaquate weapon, unless I know I am going in harm's way, in which case I'll opt for all the firepower I can get my hands on.

Read tho whole post before you catch attitude.