.40, why/why not?

[protective measures]

You guess wrong.. I carry a 1911 every day usually the below. Unless I am at the beach then I carry a DB9 appendix carry.. Thank you for your suggestion but I will continue to carry what I have trained with and am 100% comfortable with.. Cumberland Tactics - Randy Cain.. Outstanding instructor and worth the trip to one of his remote classes. Lakeland Fl would be the closest and the one I attend annually..

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You guess wrong.. I carry a 1911 every day usually the below. Unless I am at the beach then I carry a DB9 appendix carry.. Thank you for your suggestion but I will continue to carry what I have trained with and am 100% comfortable with.. Cumberland Tactics - Randy Cain.. Outstanding instructor and worth the trip to one of his remote classes. Lakeland Fl would be the closest and the one I attend annually..

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While that is not the same gun that you posted a picture of my suggestion was that you, as well as everyone who is able, to carry A GUN everyday on their person.

I have many ladies who come through & struggle with carrying guns even smaller.
We discuss different methods of carry & I loan them various holsters.
What belt do you use for that setup?

 

[Gadgetsrfun]

While that is not the same gun that you posted a picture of my suggestion was that you, as well as everyone who is able, to carry A GUN everyday on their person.

I have many ladies who come through & struggle with carrying guns even smaller.
We discuss different methods of carry & I loan them various holsters.
What belt do you use for that setup?

"Custom" made 1 1/2" with Kydex lining.. There are several makers of Kydex lined belts. I have also used the 511 belts in the past and found them to be satisfactory in securing the tools and maintaining shape over time.. As you can see I carry IWB and I like it to ride 2-3" behind my hip bone.. Slide basically in line with the side seam of my britches..

 

[Gadgetsrfun]

Little gun better than NO gun??? LOL

 

[protective measures]

"Custom" made 1 1/2" with Kydex lining.. There are several makers of Kydex lined belts. I have also used the 511 belts in the past and found them to be satisfactory in securing the tools and maintaining shape over time.. As you can see I carry IWB and I like it to ride 2-3" behind my hip bone.. Slide basically in line with the side seam of my britches..

Awesome... I wish more ladies would do the same.

 

[Corn Pop Was a Bad Dude]

I used to carry this little gun when I was a prostitute lol

 

[Gadgetsrfun]

Now you need this one.. Open carry.. LOL

 

[RiverBend]

I agree with most of the above statement.
Except that other than shooting metal plates in matches "knockdown" power has no relevance regarding the effectiveness of a pistol round.
This has been decided & taught by the training community for decades now.
Here is a quote from Mas Ayoob re: the myth of knockdown power:

Knock-down” power is a term also sometimes used to describe a firearm’s capacity to incapacitate an attacker. But, we know that no firearm has literal “knock down” power. Given Newton’s Law about “equal and opposite reaction”, if a firearm had power enough to knock someone down, discharging it would generate a recoil which would knock down the person firing it.



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I believe a lot of folks equate Energy with knockdown power since it is a measurable amount of force that it hits the target with and the more energy, the more likelihood, if a good hit, to stop to deter the attack.

 

[protective measures]

I believe a lot of folks equate Energy with knockdown power since it is a measurable amount of force that it hits the target with and the more energy, the more likelihood, if a good hit, to stop to deter the attack.

Agreed.... except that the "energy" in pistol rounds is so low that it has virtually no effect on human targets.

That is the point I have been trying to get across ineffectively for several pages now.
Decades ago it was determined ; accepted as fact by the leading ballistics experts in the country & has been taught as fact for quite some time.

Pistol bullets work by creating wound channels that the bullet makes as it passes through flesh cutting & tearing tissue & piercing vital organs..... not by creating massive tissue damage through hydrostatic shock like a rifle.

I just don't know any other way to say it.

Energy transfer has little to nothing really to do with it.

 

[Gadgetsrfun]

Off topic sort of, I have been a handgun deer hunter for 20 years or more..

The terminal effect of a 357 with 158 grain JHP at 50 yards and under is nothing short of devastating on a whitetail deer.. In my experience.. DRT (Dead Right There) Heart and lung damage is scary in fact.. 44 mag even more so..

 

[cmshoot]

Off topic sort of, I have been a handgun deer hunter for 20 years or more..

The terminal effect of a 357 with 158 grain JHP at 50 yards and under is nothing short of devastating on a whitetail deer.. In my experience.. DRT (Dead Right There) Heart and lung damage is scary in fact.. 44 mag even more so..

The key there is "Heart and lung damage".