It's typical of the BS you read in 'some' magazines. Obviously written by someone who knows very little of hunting with handguns. It's the kind of crap you would've read in a rather pedestrian hunting magazine 30yrs ago.
You are dead on. Back in the day, magazines were filled with crap by folks who really just wrote for a living. If ft. lbs. was the only guideline, there would be no bow hunters.
