A Beginner's Guide to Stopping Power

**drt4lfe** · 06-20-2012, 08:58 AM

( Chunkee....Therefore, no matter what you do to his body, his brain can still send fighting messages to that body, for 5 seconds). Not to pick on you and not sure where you got the info, but how did anyone test to see what signals brain sends to body when shot ? Chest hits have stopped many a man dead in his tracks....his brain may send signal to body but body ain't listening....unless you have seen people shot...every situation is different and always will be....we can argue caliber forever and it will not change....gotta hit what you aim at and keep shooting till other person is down and out or you run out of bullets....then reload...

**entre** · 09-22-2012, 11:38 PM

heart and brain are the same size, but the heart hit is NOTHING like the instant stopper that the brain hit is. so if you COULD reliably hit the heart, why not aim for the brain, eh? you don't, because you CAN'T rely on hitting it, that's why. people MOVE in combat, and their attack makes you duck and weave, nd the blasts make you flinch, and so do the flashes. and the debris tossed into your face. so shot placement is bs. the best yuo can hope for is to get 50% of your shots on the chest, you know

furthermore you can blow the heart apart, and the man CAN still keep fighting for up to 5 seconds. the mammalian brain ALWAYS has 5 seconds worth of oxygenated blood inside of the cranium. if they heart has just contracted before you blew it apart, the guy just got yet ANOTHER 5 secn's worth of blood pumped to his brain, and you handgun bullets will NOT blow apart his heart. often, .45 ball w;on't even make the heart stop pumping, depending upon what part of the heart is hit. so you want MASSIVE destrucktion, like you get with good 223 softpoints, or extreme loads in the 460 rowland, like 70 grs at 2200 fps, 4" barrel, with a bullet that breaks in half at impact. less recoil than .45 ball, by the way.