![]() What you choose depends partly on what we covered last month, how you shoot and recover from shooting the gun. One has 17 rounds of nine, one has 14 rounds of. The same gun comes in three calibers and they are all the same size. Caliber is always going to be a trade off with capacity. It is failing to get good results at the outset that turns a short gunfight into an epic one. The pertinent question most often is not how many bullets your gun holds but how much damage you can do in the short time you have. ![]() The officer traded off his 9mm for a Glock. But based on what I saw and some experience shooting cars, and the result of the subject’s actions upon finally being hit, the fight most likely would have been over during the first two shots with a. This officer’s ability to reload under pressure was definitely a factor in the ending of this fight, he says. Neither did the bad guy’s bullets reach him. Every bullet was well directed they just did not reach the subject (we saw most of it on film). It was one of those unusually long gunfights that took more than 20 shots from his Glock 17 before he actually hit the bad guy. Eventually the bad guy even got into his cruiser. Recently I had a law enforcement student involved in a fight that evolved around his police cruiser. 45 Colt at a slower reload – it’s your choice! 45 Auto that can be reloaded rapidly or 6 Rounds of even more effective. You should be prepared for a longer fight regardless! But If you have a gun that holds 15 rounds then you had better also plan on doing a lot of dynamic movement and use cover to help you keep from getting shot during the time it takes to use those 15 rounds effectively.Ħ Rounds of Effective. Through years of research I have discovered that most fights are short, no more than 2 to 3 seconds, but I have not found a guarantee that they would be that short either. Tough choice! Don’t get lulled into a false sense of security! No one can tell you how long your gunfight will last. The latter is however easier to keep running in a long fight. 45 wheel gun is the equal or even superior of a 15 shot 9mm in effectiveness (IF you shoot both equally well). Don’t bet your life on it.Ĭapacity benchmarks vary with effectiveness. On the other hand, your attacker may simply decide to quit (psst that does happen). The same is true if you select the latest “whiz bang” bullet that “transfers all its energy” and you put it right where it belongs but it fails to reach the spine! Will it lead to more rapid incapacitation with a hit to only to the heart or lung? Perhaps, or even probably, but giving up the ability to instantly stop the fight to increase the rapid stop – which can still be a lifetime – seems a poor compromise. People obsess about caliber and the latest and greatest bullet technology but gloss over the fact that if you drop that bullet just 1″ off the upper spine you have likely increased the duration of this fight by factor of times 10! You can get killed during that time. But since these days trouble can find us in our home that may not be an option. Forward this article to your friends! Nobody wants to learn these lessons the hard way, whether carrying a gun as a CCW, as a Police Officer on duty or off, as a security guard, or in the sandbox so far away protecting our freedom.Įxcept for a job in one of the world’s really hot spots fighting terrorists, you will probably run out of time before you run out of bullets, unless you are a lousy shot! If you refuse to train hard the answer is not more bullets (though more ammo is not necessarily a bad thing) but to learn to stay out of trouble. Within the same week we received a report (in the form of an excellent but sad magazine article) from a young Marine who is disabled for life because he did not know how to do this. ![]() When a threat did materialize without warning he was able to stop mid-stream and change gears. Rather, he had kept up his guard up when his first attacker fell and, after a threat scan to insure there wasn’t another immediate threat, he started to execute a reload. He did not stick his muzzle into the air where it might take a lifetime to re-index or block his vision (or act as a flag to tell every bad guy in the vicinity that someone is going to be out of action for a brief period). An enemy fighter suddenly materialized after the first fight was over, presumably out of “nowhere.” He was able to choose the best option, and simply shot said bad guy, because his head, and his gun, were still in the fight! He did not “unload to reload”. Just recently I had a student report that he won his second fight, immediately following his first, because of a technique we taught him for reloading in combat. People have died for the inability to stay in the fight until they prevailed.
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