[BlueTrain]

Well, here's my response to DRice's comments.

First off, a person trained with their weapon is going to be accurate, provided they are under no stress. But when they are threatened or otherwise in danger, that is likely to go to pieces. Not necessarily but it can certainly happen. A key point here would be the circumstances: can you see the threat coming or did you have a chance to prepare, both mentally and physically.

Second, twenty-five or thirty yards is a fair distance, depending on where you are. Indoors it will seem like more, outside, say, in the woods, it will seem like a lot less. In the open it is no distance at all. That in itself should make you think a little about handgun ranges. That also brings up the question of engagement distance, a whole 'nother topic in itself, one not discussed so much here.

But hitting a heart size target (the size of your fist) at 25 to 30 yards is extremenly problematic on a moving target. If you can get the target to hold still, so much the better, but it generally requires some education on the part of the target. The head is just as hard to hit for all the same reasons and for a .22 rimfire, it is harder than you realize. No joking, there are a lot of hard headed people out there. It is true that a hit to the head will often floor a person when nothing else will and it happens to boxers all the time. But they are likely to get right back up again. A hit to the face is something else, however, but hitting a moving target the size of your outstretched hand is not easy at 25 yards.

Yes, he is easier to hit the closer he gets and so are you.