A 22 short killed a guy outside of Gallup - he was accidentally shot in the lower abdomen by a friend while eradicating prairie dogs from some grazing land. He told the friend he was okay, then had to sit down. By the time I arrived he was dead from internal bleeding - the 22 Short HP clipped a major blood vessel. Only a trickle of blood oozed from the wound; the friend said that the victim just kept getting more pale before losing consciousness.

some US spec ops units have been using hollow points for quite a while. Black Hills I believe, originally.

Beemerguy, there is another point shown by your anecdata: you can't count on a pistol to stop a bad guy. Both recipients were fully functional after being shot.

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Why didn’t the crime lab test for residue from the reloaded powder?

Flat point FMJ would be an improvement over standard ball.
I load them (Winchester White Box) in my .380’s, alternating with JHP in each magazine.

Well, they were conscious and alert, but badly wounded. In an adversarial situation, they would have been no more good.

Thinking back, in a surprising number of our shootings, the victims were not unconscious, but they were definitely out of action. Others were DRT (Dead Right There)...

My last two shootings, in the summer of 2004, were both fatals. The first victim was a 22 year old who had six 9mm rounds in the center of his chest. We commenced CPR, and when the medics got there, we assisted them all the way to Shock-Trauma downtown. They made a heroic effort to save his life there, but when they opened his chest, his heart had been destroyed. We went back to scene to flush the blood, and the police told us the shooter was a 15 year old who already had an outstanding homicide warrant. I just shook my head...

My last fatal shooting was on August 1, 2004, at 3 in the morning. He was 18 years old, and was lying face down in an impossibly big pool of blood. He had a single entry wound dead-center in his chest, and an exit wound about 4" in diameter centered between his shoulder blades. Our protocols required us to begin Advanced Life Support, so we started CPR.. When the paramedics arrived, they made the decision to take him to a local hospital so he could be formally pronounced, and that's what we did. My younger son was the same age as our victim, and as we were working on him, all I could think of was that in a couple of hours, this kid's mother is going to answer a knock at her door, and the police will tell her that her baby's dead...very, very depressing.