Defensiveness? You posted anecdotal info with no quantitative data and indirectly questioned the validity my posting. I responded to it. If you were only referencing rifle rounds, why bring it up, we were talking pistol rounds. Clearly you meant to infer that if the rifle rounds in your opinion are inferior, so are the pistol rounds.

Here's a link for pistol ammo testing done on a lot of different rounds by someone who's considered a wound and ammo expert. His credentials are an arm long, including being part of the F.B.I. testing group.

Best Choices for Self Defense Ammo

This is a public study with open permission to re-post.

That should end the debate about Barnes bullets for pistols.