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Old 04-30-2013, 11:47 PM
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Wow, so much fail in this thread. I was chomping at the bit until I saw this:

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Originally Posted by AAShooter View Post
Consider shooting someone wearing a heavy leather jacket from the side. The shot may have to go through a leather jacket, the arm, the bone, back through the jacket, back through the jacket a third time, through skin and ribs, and then gets to the good stuff.
That is exactly the point, add stress, poor lighting, a moving subject, along with a very large or perhaps overweight subject, finally add in a side shot and perhaps a poorly placed shot. These ALL stack the deck strongly in favor of your shot not effectively stopping in that scenario. Add in any kind of bird shot with some of the compromising factors above and you have a unequivocally clear recipe for failure to incapacitate, PERIOD. Sure, having all of these factors at the same time is unlikely, but defense is all about stacking ones deck as much in their own favor as possible.

As others have pointed out 00 and #1 buck are nearly universal for police, FBI, military, etc. None of these folks use increasingly lethal rounds either.

Wound ballistics experts also clearly advise only the two types of shot shells above for a sufficient choice in ammunition.
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