Rolled Out On: 4/30/2008 6:36 PM

Or if Open Carry was allowed in FL... I'd carry a DW too!

Rolled Out On: 4/30/2008 8:00 PM

You should read the book Homicide: A Year In the Killing Streets by David Simon.

An excerpt

"...a bullet stops a human being by doing one of two things: striking the brain, brain stem or spinal cord, causing immediate damage to the central nervous system; or damaging enough of the cardiovascular system to cause massive blood loss to the brain and eventual collapse... Once loosed upon the innards of a human being, these little lead bits also tend toward the unpredictable. For one thing, bullets often lose their shape. Hollow-point and wadcutter rounds tend to flatten out against tissue, and all ammunition can shatter against bone. Likewise, most projectiles do a lot less spinning and drilling after encountering resistance inside the body; instead, they yaw and tumble, battering tissue and organs along the way. As bullets enter a body, they also become less directional, glancing off bone and sinew and following the altered trajectories of their own changing shape. This is as true for the smallest sllugs as for the larger ones. Out on the street, the big guns - the .38s, .44s, and .45s - still get the greatest respect, but the lowly .22 pistol has acquired a reputation all its own. Any West Baltimore homeboy can tell you that when a .22 roundnose gets under a man's skin, it bounces around like a pinball. And every pathologist seems to have a story about a .22 slug that entered the lower left back, clipped both lungs, the aorta and the liver, then cracked an upper rib or two before finding its way out of the upper right shoulder. It's true that a man who gets hit with a .45 bullet has to worry about a larger piece of lead cleaving through him, but with a good .22 round, he has to worry that the little bugger is in there for the grand tour." pg 408-409

Rolled Out On: 4/30/2008 10:19 PM

Umm, I think you mean you have the .40S&W beta since the 10mm came before the .40

Rolled Out On: 4/30/2008 11:50 PM

so a .380 is not so good? I should stick with my .38?

Rolled Out On: 5/1/2008 12:41 PM

" so a .380 is not so good? I should stick with my .38?"

A 38 has more velocity than a 380, and a heavier slug, but shot placement is more important than a small difference in power or caliber size.

Rolled Out On: 5/1/2008 8:19 PM

I used to own two Browning .380's and with SuperVels was not afraid to use them for defensive purposes. But only with Super Vels, Of, course, those were removed from the market.