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Hi SKS,
From your signature line it seems we agree: Please re-read my entire first post which sets up my position on this subject and then respond again if you will.
Jody said (quote)
"My argument is regarding, note here; CIVILIAN PERSONAL DEFENSE (not police, military, or defense agains bears or rhinos): First: We should all agree that the weapon we have with us all the time as a civilian, is senior to the one we don't have when it's needed. A person therefore who decides to carry a firearm full-time will more likely carry a smaller lighter gun more of the time... than the same person will carry a larger heavier gun."... There is quite a bit more to that first post.
Yes, I am a good shot... because I practice and I practice almost entirely with only two pistols my .22 TPH and my 9x18 Makarov. Even more than my practice is that I seek always to NOT be where my defense should be against humans. My primary concern is against 4 legged danger. And yes, my defense is head shot. WHY... because as a hunter I can tell you that chest shots even with a 12 ga. slug are not fast stoppers. Head shots with a .22 are far faster.
If I were to need to use my pistol or even a shotgun against a human predator; my mindset is for multiple defensive shots and even then the second and subsequent shots to the head.
I have mentioned in the past that one of my police associates had a partner killed when a bad guy, having been hit with a magazine load of 12 ga. buckshot and slugs in the chest, killed the cop with the empty shotgun (using it as a club) and then ran off to die quite a distance away. His chest and guts were decimated, he lived long enough to kill. I have seen wild dogs, wild cats, even roosters, fox, possum and racoon take several shots to the chest from large caliber pistols and with super-defense ammo and still continue to attack or in the case of the fox to run.
Practice and experience is prone to give one different answers to a problem than contemplation and extrapolation. I have chosen what I am comfortable with and I found that too often I did not carry a larger pistol in the field when I should have.
It is, as you said in your signature line, what you have with you...
Take care,
Jody
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