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Originally Posted by McLovin

Follow up:

Been to the range with the GP100 a few times.

Fired both .38spl and 357. I don’t notice a huge difference in recoil between the 2. Some, for sure.

That's my experience from firing both from a S&W M27 w/6" barrel. The magnum round from such a heavy gun isn't that big a deal. If I was going to go through 300 rounds and could choose 38 or 357, I'd go with the 38, but the 357 isn't like those crazy videos that you see online (or the time that I fired a 454casull).

My impressions:

I couldn’t do half dollars at 7 yards without a lot more practice. Probably never could get to that!

It seems like plenty of power for a bedroom. It’s a bit on the heavy side.

Range practice is of course important, but a real life situation with a middle of the night intruder would bear almost no resemblance. I can see where it would be very, very easy to shoot and miss (multiple times) under those circumstances (dark, groggy, adrenaline, moving target, a few seconds to get oriented, etc).

This guy has a take on that thought that makes a lot of sense to me. I'm sure that most folks have a default response (fight, fly, freeze, whatever). And you're going to struggle to do anything that you haven't trained to the point that you can do something without thinking.

Actually, it seems like if you don’t hit on the first shot you’re probably in some trouble.

I think that's not necessarily the case. Based on videos that I've seen online, it seems like it's not unusual for perps to run when the lead starts flying. Yes, there are some that shoot back as well. I think most bad guys except for the worst of the worst that come from a very rough gang-like background are not interested in being shot. The folks that come from a gang background where they've been in shootouts are more troublesome, and probably have to be shot many times or mortally wounded before you stop them. Most burglars that sneak in in the dark are probably not interested in confrontation/conflict unless they have come in to rape/murder. And even those guys are probably mostly not interested or they wouldn't be sneaking in the dark. The ones that I'd be most worried about would kick the door in when all of the lights are on. And even some of the videos that I've seen of those show that as soon as the home owner starts firing, they push each other out of the way as they fight to run out the door.

On a related subject is this video. The guy doing the training was a cop (undercover NARC) and police trainer.