The Best Handgun Caliber – A Real World Study ~ VIDEO

By Ammoland

Opinion by Rational Preps via Youtube. All credit for video and transcript is the property of Rational Preps.

*Machine Transcript follows, [sic].
USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Ammunition stopping power an important topic for anyone interested in armed self-defense. And it’s especially important for preppers. The debate about which handgun caliber is best has raged for decades. It’s hard to know what’s real & what is a myth. To get anywhere close to the truth you would need to study hundreds of actual real world shootings.

Greg Ellifritz did just that.

He talked to the participants of gunfights, read police reports, attended autopsies and scoured newspapers magazines and the Internet for reliable accounts. All his data came from real world altercations with criminals or from military actions. Over the course of ten years, he kept track of the stopping power results for more than seventeen hundred shooting incidents and put together a solid fact-based report on his findings.

It provides real answers to a lot of big questions about stopping power and gunfights. Here are all the incidents he studied. Broken down by the number of incidents for each caliber or some calibers like the .44 …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand