09-27-2011, 02:46 AM
Does anyone know how much data Mr Ellfritz used from WWI? As I remember, Alvin York got his medal from his use of a .45, not an 06. One would think more data would be available for the .45 and 9mm. Not just hand guns but lots and lots of submachine guns in those calibers. WWII on 3 fronts, Korea, Vietnam and lots in between should have yealded a virtual universe of data on stopping power. I have talked to a number of guys who went into viet kong tunnels with .45s and were quite impressed by its stopping power, were any on those in the study? To put another way, in the last 100 years I'll bet well over a million people were shot in anger with these weapons and here we are trying to draw sweeping conclusions on stopping power by examning a very small fraction of the data.