Man, pool halls are dangerous

DynoDan said:
Suppressors make concealed carry problematic though.
Like choosing the best wine or motor oil, the best pistol model, caliber, & projectile selection involves myriad issues/circumstances, and everyone has his favorite regardless of evidence.
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Ok unsupressed subsonic still overcomes the overpenetration issue.
 
Jaden said:
Ok unsupressed subsonic still overcomes the overpenetration issue.
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Careful selection of the ammo is more important than the caliber as you seem to understand. My first choice is a 45, 230 grain or bigger. A forty in the proper weight is sweet too and a 9mm will get the job done. The 9mm's including the 380 will get the job done with careful bullet selection, the 380 best in the summertime. It doesn't pay to forget the 380 was the most popular police and military round in much of the world before NATO standardized on the 9x19.

My carry guns have gotten mostly smaller over the years. Started off with a 357 downloaded very little to a +P+ 38Special. Handled a little better for me. I could shoot three rounds in the time it took me to shoot two 357 +Ps from a snubby. Then I acquired a .45 full sized 1911. I carry a Commander in Indian Country now and a 380 for everyday use. A mouse gun as demonstrated by shooting a mouse with it that was trying to invade the wiring on my brother's tractor. The spare magazine holder looks a lot like another mouse gun for some reason. I'm pretty sure that anybody on the receiving end is gonna hate them meeses to pieces as Tom would say! I settle for a .22 for home defense, 224 that is. Works from two feet or closer to 200 yards or so. I like a small variable scope, 1 by four or six, 1.5 or 2 by seven. I trust the AR platform to get me through the night. I have shot small critters out past a thousand yards with it but it would probably be just fine on two legged varmints out to a few hundred yards. More likely to be shooting twenty feet anyway.

With modern ammo I would rather carry a .25 than be barefoot. Goes with the saying that a lot of people laugh at .22 rimfires but not when one is pointed at them! A friend was having cookouts. One cookout two guys got to arguing and ran to their cars for pistols. Roughly seventy-five feet apart and one grabbed a .25 pocket pistol and shot the other one in the head. Dead before he hit the ground. Another instance, a big man made a hobby of beating a much smaller man's ass every time he saw his car parked somewhere. This got old after a year or two and the li'l fella walked up one day and shot the big guy in the forehead with a 25. Killed him graveyard dead. Better to have any gun than no gun!

Hu
 
Hungarian said:
Semantics. It’s a shit hole. How about that?
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Knew somebody that went to some of the South American countries on business. Suit and tie work, they gave him two or three bodyguards in the daytime and strict instructions to stay in the hotel room at night once he had let the bodyguards go for the day.

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
Knew somebody that went to some of the South American countries on business. Suit and tie work, they gave him two or three bodyguards in the daytime and strict instructions to stay in the hotel room at night once he had let the bodyguards go for the day.
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When I went for business certified drivers were required by the ransom insurance company. I suspect "certified" meant armed. Same story in China.
 
Be a person of peace and honor. If you convey these concepts well enough, you are less likely to need a gun. Oh, and don't play people that appear to be dangerous and/or mentally unstable. However, I say these things as a large and strong person who has trained martial arts. I don't know how it is to live as a smaller person that is more prone to being physically intimidated.
 
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