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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
If it will stay on a basketball at 25 yards, it's good enough.
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Those basketballs are a menace.
I missed the whole 'stopping power' discussion, as I was in the Michigan woods attempting to put some 'stopping power' on a deer. No dice. But my dad got a nice 7 point. Shot with a .308 at a high angle down through heart/lungs. It ran 100 yards with catastrophic damage to its vital organs.
My great uncle Sulo ( A Finnlander, ya eh?) had a friend I met. They had fought in Bastogne together. The guy had a german bullet slice his stomach wide open so that his guts fell out on the ground. My uncle literally pushed his guts back in, and made the guy get up and run to a shelter. He lived.
Without damage to the centeral nervous system, the attackers reaction to being shot will be somewhat determined by their mental state. That being said, anyone who has shot at a indoor range knows that the concusion from a larger caliber weapons is defintely a deterent. Having someone shoot a .44 next to you not fun. Your bodys automatic response is to get the hell away from it.