Looking down the barrel and loaded chambers of a magnum revolver or a semi-auto pistol? I vote for looking down the barrel & loaded chambers of my S&W 460 xvr loaded with Black Talons aka Winchester Dual Bonded ammunition. I think that is an unbeatable "pardon me sir. May I go now?" moment in time.

Looking at the business end of a .44 Special loaded with Gold Dots.
The gaping, cavernous hollowpoints with the contrast of the jacket versus the silvery sheen of the lead core.
Maybe that's more of an "Oh, sh**!" moment.

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What would Jim Cirillo do?

I vote "look at them in a mirror" .

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Alan
SWCA LM 2023, SWHF 220

I'd say staring down the end of a shotgun

When you cock a 41 magnum M&P under a BG's nose and you hear his eyeballs click, you know you've got his attention.

When I pulled my colt python 357/6" barrel on a druggie who told me I was lucky my car had an alarm system and he couldn't make any money on me. I pulled out the python which no one knew I carried and told him I'd shove it up your you know what and pull the trigger on you or anyone who was ripping me off. This was 1976 and he just pushed my buttons but his eyes got big like silver dollars. He was my neighbor and for over a year every time I came out of the house and he was outside he went in his house. He respected me after that or was he scared. When your looking at the business end of a 357mag or any gun for that matter when you can see the hollow points in the cylinder you know the guy behind it means business. I'm a teddy bear most of the time but push my buttons/threaten me I'm a cornered pit bull.

Especially a Double Barrel

Quite frankly just looking down the barrel at close range of any gun will pretty much be a "wait a minute moment" for most and usually the bigger the hole you are looking at the more the pucker factor will ratchet up.

I have mowed this over myself, since you can see well the bullets in a revolver and the semi-auto is a mystery. I think a revolver would be more menacing because of that! But if I were being robbed, I would rather the buy have a revolver, since it has a longer trigger pull. I feel I could wrestle him closer and get the one up on him. But those are just day dreams.

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Still just a kid at heart

That wasn't his eyeballs clicking-that was something down south snapping shut

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Forum consigliere

Back about 1976 I rolled up on a suspicious person call at a car wash. This was about 0200 hrs. There was a guy working on the coin box with a heavy duty screw driver in one bay. When I asked him what he thought he was doing he turned on me with the screw driver held down low, pointed at me like a knife and took a step toward me. Very shortly there after...when my Colt Government Model's thumb safety clicked off and the front sight stopped on his chest he said, and I quote, "That ain't no 9mm!" and dropped the screw driver.

Point is, it doesn't have to be a revolver to get their attention. (smile)

Seriously, my experience has been that how you handle the gun and the command you have of the situation has more impact than what kind of gun you are using. YMMV!

Dave

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PCSD (Ret)

I found that a Remington 870 gets a lot of attention when you need it to.

Jay

Having been on the wrong side of an AK-47 with an angry military guard at a PRC naval air station, I can say with certainty that just being there and knowing that life was now a matter of millimeters was life altering. The business end of gun barrel is a scary place to be, particularly with someone at the other end prepared to use it. The caliber, make, model, etc. are not what comes to mind.

It's a long story . . . but while in Shanghai 15 years ago my driver made a wrong turn and within seconds there we were.

Humbly yours,

R

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Rachel
Grande Torina

I looked down the barrel of a shotgun once the wrong end. It was a bad sureal feeling. Went like this. A couple, friends of mine brought along a girl for me to meet. I was bbq`ing for us. Rusty, my dog was tuneing up in his pen. My friends and the girl bugged me to let him loose. I did and soon it sounded like a slaughter house. This was on a weekday afternoon and there was a bunch of kids going home from school on the street. Rusty had a cat up a tree and was howling. I had a neighbor ray, who was sort of a friend but liked his firewater. He was out there drunk with a shotgun taking a bead on rusty! I yelled, "Ray, put up that gun and he pointed it right at my gut! I noticed bill had walked up to one side and slightly behind him and had his snub pointed right at his head! I dont think ray ever seen that but did lower the barrel and walked of swearing to his house. It took awhile to catch up rusty and pen him. I still was mad and walked over to rays house with bill behind me. It was a hot day and ray had the door open and yelled come on in buddy! I yelled back, get yer butt out here ray, and gave him the riot act. Told him dont you even walk in front of my house again ray! You want to go to the bar you walk across the street! He did too for like a year. Finaly I started to feel like a bully over it, found him at the nearest bar and apologized and bought him a drink. He got even though. He introduced me to my ex wife to be!

Got a call one night that there had been a shooting at the bus depot.

I arrived and there were two bodies lying on the ground by the door to a Greyhound bus. Being dumber than a box of rocks, I stuck my head in the door of the bus and into the muzzle of a .38 snub nose. It was so close I swear I could see the bullets in the cylinder and barrel even though it was 3AM.

Just then a Marine that had been asleep in the back of the bus and awakened by the gunfire like to tore the head off the guy aiming a gun at me.

I can still see that snubby lookin' at me. That thar was one of those moments.

Kinda been partial to Marines ever since.

I don't like looking at a pointed finger. I would like it even less if I was looking at the business end of a firearm. Revolver ... semi-auto ... shotgun ... rifle ... same difference.

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I'm with the banned ...

Iggy, was the guy that stuck the gun in your face the same one that shot the guys?

I've never had the displeasure of looking down the business end of a firearm pointed in anger but a loaded big bore revolver would get my vote for pucker factor.

a self portrait with the camera on a timer and done for artistic reasons...no cameras were hurt in the making of this image.

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Bill Bates

Yup. He went to the gas chamber.

No matter what the caliber, when looking at a gun from the business end, the hole ALWAYS looks bigger than it really is.

Quite a few years ago I had police officer point his revolver at me and say, "Don't move". I followed his command and the situation soon resolved itself as a case of mis-identification. I can say with certainty that, in my case at least, I paid no notice whatsoever of the caliber or make of his gun, or if there were hollow points visible in the cylinder, or any of that type of nonsense. So all of the clowns looking to see how badass they look in the mirror are wasting their time if their goal is trying to see how intimidating they appear. I think ANY gun pointed at you, even a lowly 22, will get your full attention. But then, we don't point our guns at people hoping to intimidate them, do we? Google "felony brandishing of a firearm" if further research is desired.

Not so much a "wait a moment" experience as an "unexpected laundry bill" experience.

But I have no intention of testing the effect on somebody else.

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Oh well, what the hell.

A old friend told me a funny story that happened when he was a kid. He and a fat buddy of his were doing some prank or whatever and a beat cop yelled for them to stop as they started to run off. His fat buddy stopped short and yelled back, "Dddddont shoot! I am just a kid!

That picture looks like Brian Dennehy.

I would think that a .460 VR would be pretty intimidating.

We have many handguns at home, and my 16 year old is pretty adept at shooting some of them.

The day I brought the 5" 625 .45 ACP home he said "Damn dad, that's a cannon!"

When I read the thread title of "Wait a Minute Moments", I thought of the old adage concerning the two loudest sounds with guns. Both would definitely make you say, "Wait a minute..."

The first is the gun that goes "click" when it should have gone "bang".

The second is the gun that goes "bang" when it should have gone "click".

Edmo

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A look at the business end of the 4in 25-2 with 230gr JHPs in it when the hollow part of the bullet is larger in dia than a .308 bullet is pretty worthy! Something about looking at the end a .45 revolver with hollow points makes a bad guy wanna turn good.

Me too! So I read before posting my wait a min moment with a slam fire on a G22.........luckily at a range with it pointed the correct direction!

"Wait a minute moments"
Fart that feels to warm and moist to be a fart.
Gun pointed at me more of an oh s**t moment.

I'd have to vote with a 625. That cylinder is the size of a trash can and the chambers like a dog bowl!

That said, the one time I had to pull a gun it was a puny Jennings J22 (i.e. All I had). I remember clearly it was an OS moment for the ill intended punks closing in on my girl and I while we walked a local nature trail. They stopped cold in their tracks and started sputtering like 10 year olds heading to the wood shed.
Guess I'd say that the OS moment is really in the eye of the beholder :-)

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Dave

I would have to say looking down the business end of an 8 3/8" Model 500 with hollow points is a memorable experience, ( in the mirror of course)

Bound to break the ice in any situation


thewelshm

I occasionally perform armed Bodyguard services to frightened Women. I always find out as much as I can about whoever they are afraid of. Recently it has been a single person. Although I have often carried a Glock (or two) on these assignments, there have recently been a few where I knew I was only protecting my client from one person. One recently was an estranged husband coming to her house for a visitation. There had been abuse in the marriage, and when I talked to the Sheriff beforehand he told me this was a pretty bad guy. I thought it over and decided if I needed my sidearm it would be indoors, at close range. I decided if I had to throw down on this guy, I wanted him to get the message that I meant business. I carried my S&W M696 .44 Special. I figured that .429" bore and Gold Dot hollowpoints peeking out at him, aimed at his groin, (with my finger, of course, off the trigger, Rule #3) would make quite an impression.
Turned out he was a pretty decent guy, and I had no trouble. Kept that revolver concealed the whole time, and he never knew it was there. My client was very grateful and everything went off without a hitch.
I still carry the Glocks on these assignments, but sometimes a revolver is called for.
Jim

+1^^^^ The last place I wanna be.

Im sure .500 s&w and perhaps even a shotty beat it.

As far as shoulder fired weapons of those commonly available to the general population, not much beats a double barreled side by side shotgun pointed at you in earnest, especially from less than 10 yards. They look much more menacing than an O/U does for some reason.

Agreed, and the thing about double barreled shotguns, unlike any other firearm, not only do you have THE BIGGEST BORE possible, you can fire BOTH BARRELS at the same time. That trumps even a single barrel shotgun (though with a single barrel you can have a fast follow up second shot, and third, and fourth etc.)

I've read articles about "stopping power" where the author stated that not even a shotgun is a guaranteed one shot stop, but something tells me that having both barrels unloaded on a person intent on doing harm is gonna stop him, at the very least it will be at the very top of the totem pole of one shot stop percentiles, no doubt.