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Old 02-16-2017, 11:21 AM
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[QUOTE=gwpercle;139465202]I wish somebody would shoot something with anything.... /QUOTE]

How about something that bleeds?

Many years ago I lived out of town in an area surrounded by jack rabbits. This provided an excellent opportunity to test factory and hand loaded ammo from handguns and rifles.

Here's my summary of experiences with three handgun cartridges:

The 9x19mm rounds (including HPs) never stopped one unless it was a head shot. I believe they were all killed with solid body hits but they didn't know it and ran far before dying.

About 20% of the time body shots with 230 grain GI round ball 45 ACP would bowl them over and they would get up and run a ways to die.
Body shots with a 200 H&G #68 bullet at 950 fps and Sierra's 185 grain at 1000 fps were impressive.

Any 357 mag load proved devastating.

I realize these results may be sacrilege for some 9x19mm proponents but it is what happened with the ammo available at the time.
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