Well done, zzbruno! I'm never without my 642 and when I am dog walking it is incidents such as you described that keep me on high alert!
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Now, switch from a 250 lb-ft of KE .38 Spl from a 1.875" barrel to a 10mm delivering 833 lb-ft of KE from a Glock 20 stoked with Underwood 155 grain JHP - SIXTEEN of them! THAT would be a vastly different outcome because the 10mm bullet is travelling FAST...carrying lots of kinetic energy, and will create a great deal of tissue destruction that equates to non-adapatable wounds.
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People HAVE been shot "clean through" the head with a .38 special with no significant damage...I know, I was there. NO< NO<NO
1) Coming from a family of Polish Marines I could almost believe that, but your not suggesting that they lived, or could still function??? I would need to see that before I could believe it. CT/MRI, Full Chart, Autopsy records!!
2) The Dura mater " tough mother" is one of three connective tissues surrounding the CNS. The gray and white matter would be soft tissue. It takes a human brain 150-300 ms ( milliseconds ) ( 1000 ms = 1 second ) for a brain to "realize" that something has occurred. So if a 38 traveling @ 850 fps would hit my imaginary brain ( 1 foot long ), it would take approx 850 ms to enter and exit my brain, but since my brain takes 300 ms or up to 500 ms to become aware and the bullet was damaging tissue necessary
to "realize", think etc I would never know that I was hit. A heart shot may take 15-30 seconds to lose consciousness, which is why the 250 pd ( big deer) heart shot deer can run 40 yds +.
3) " What youall' know about death"---Platoon If you mean the inability could have conscious activity that would be occurring in about 500ms and damage to Medulla would then stop heart/lungs 350 ms later. Electrical activity would go on for unknown period.
"that pulverizes soft tissue (dura matter) and causes INSTANT cessation of human action, with death only seconds away.."
4) My face is about 7" across, my chest with important parts is about 17" across, under stress I would believe that I would have a greater chance on the larger target. Yes I know 2 to the chest -1 to the head, I have practiced it a few thousand times on paper and did not have Cooper yelling in my ear!!
"When your time comes, do your best to shoot directly into the FACE/HEAD using the most powerful HP ammo you can find....
I carry a 642 with Hornady Critical Defense +p ammo, and fortunately have never had to fire it in my own defense. I know that many on this forum, and elsewhere, carry this or similar j-frames and assume that if that emergency ever arises, this round from this gun will be sufficient to stop the threat. But do we have any real world evidence that can be shared that demonstrates the effectiveness of a 642 firing 38 ammo and saving the day?
when you think about the "stopping power" of ANY handgun/handgun caliber I defer to an old military saying regarding this issue:
"The ONLY thing a handgun is any good for is fighting your way to another rifle".
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They weren't fine. About 30 yards out, they set upon my dog. I had my hand in my pocket and wrapped around the Airweight when they bolted, but still didn't get into position until they were on top of my dog. 3 shots, 2 hits.