Front Sight, Press

Good read:

One of the Holy Grails of the gunny world is "stopping power".
Arcane formulas combining bullet weight, velocity and diametre in various proportions are proposed, established, fretted over and adopted — or discarded — in search of a pistol/round combination that will "guarantee" that the user will emerge victorious in an armed confrontation. And choices once made are defended with religious fervor.

*sigh*

To my mind, none of these formulas are capable of quantifying the most important part of stopping power.

This is not to say that your choice of sidearm and your choice of calibre aren’t important in your search for "stopping power" … but there is another variable that is much more important than bullet size and velocity.

You.

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