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Re: I'm having second thoughts about my LCP after reading this...
« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2009, 09:40:57 PM »
It's a good thing it didn't hit any vital organs.

Now thats funny right there!
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Re: I'm having second thoughts about my LCP after reading this...
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2009, 09:56:52 PM »
Obviously, whatever .380 round was being used didn't have much of a temporary wound cavity. However, I'm surprised the bullet made it all the way through.

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Re: I'm having second thoughts about my LCP after reading this...
« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2009, 09:58:08 PM »
Now thats funny right there!
I'll second that one! :D
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Re: I'm having second thoughts about my LCP after reading this...
« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2009, 10:26:19 PM »
Remember what we've talked about on the podcasts — any subcaliber gun means multiple shots, including a sort of automatic failure drill. Plus, suck it up and get the trick bullets...I've got Corbon DPX in mine...

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Re: I'm having second thoughts about my LCP after reading this...
« Reply #14 on: April 17, 2009, 10:36:39 PM »
..... now where is that thread about the guy getting shot in the head with a 9mm ???
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Re: I'm having second thoughts about my LCP after reading this...
« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2009, 10:56:02 PM »
I don't see where the problem is, it went THROUGH her head, isn't that sufficient penetration ?

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Re: I'm having second thoughts about my LCP after reading this...
« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2009, 10:56:52 PM »
..... now where is that thread about the guy getting shot in the head with a 9mm ???

You just couldn't resist, could you? And here I thought I, from time to time, thought, "Gee, what will happen if I push this buton on DRTV".
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Re: I'm having second thoughts about my LCP after reading this...
« Reply #17 on: April 17, 2009, 11:13:23 PM »
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"There's no way she should be alive other than a miracle from God," said Sheriff Mike Byrd of Jackson County, Miss.

I think this qualifies.

Medically, we have seen the news reports of nails, arrows, and other objects enter the skull and penetrate brain tissue, with little or no "lethal" result.

Check out these x-ray photos.

http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2008/05/unusual_penetrating_brain_injuries.php

This women was very lucky, and it seems the husband wasn't.

Reminds me of Father Guido Sarducci complaining about the Catholic Church letting non-italians become saints with 2 of their 3 required miracles only being card tricks.

Seems to me that the empirical evidence suggests it was certainly not miraculous.  Headshots with pistols aren't magic. This is one of many examples of why we don't recommend them except for very specific extreme circumstances and even then only to limited areas from specific angles. The head is pretty damn well armored and not all of the brain is "vital". Pistol bullets are generally moving way to slow to disrupt tissue that they don't actually contact.

Multiple shots to the high center chest delivered as quickly as possible.


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Re: I'm having second thoughts about my LCP after reading this...
« Reply #18 on: April 17, 2009, 11:26:02 PM »
Obviously, whatever .380 round was being used didn't have much of a temporary wound cavity. However, I'm surprised the bullet made it all the way through.
If you have doubts as to the results of the .380 bullet's ballistic results, get a couple boxes and put it to the test.  I'm pretty sure that a round nose, full metal jacket  will go through the human body if it isn't deflected by a bone into another bone.  Jacketed hollow points are designed to expand, do more damage, and not to pass through completely.  But, that doesn't mean they won't.

I shot a buck back in 01' with a 12 ga. semi autoloader.  I hit him on the left side behind the shoulder blade, and the slug was stuck in the right one.  That's a 3"magnum, 1oz. slug at about 50 yards.  Given the choice of firearms to defend myself.  I would choose the slug gun even though the slug didn't go all the way through.
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Re: I'm having second thoughts about my LCP after reading this...
« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2009, 12:13:43 AM »
I don't see where the problem is, it went THROUGH her head, isn't that sufficient penetration ?


Yep.. that's what I thought right off too. I think the penetration was good enough.  ::) I am also glad the woman is okay.

 

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