Do you volunteer to get shot then? Should bounce right off.
That's not what I'm getting at. My point is the Marshall/Sanow %% are not credible at all. Come one, do you REALLY think that there are handgun loads that have a 96% chance of incapacitating someone with one shot?
Just get some good anecdotal evidence from a statistician and you are good to go! Heck, I killed a deer with a .32 Seecamp about 25 years ago.*
Ha! Me, too, only mine had been hit by a car and acted as though his back was broken. Very nice buck. I stuck my Seecamp right behind his ear and one shot was all it took.
I called Larry Seecamp right after I received my 32 and he told me that the gun was engineered to work the best with Silvertips but I carried it loaded with Glaser Saftey Slugs. Worked good on that deer.
That makes yours a one shot stop. My deer took two shots total, so it doesn't count.
"Don't believe everything you see on the Internet" - Abraham Lincoln
Course I was only about six inches from mine and using Glasers.
The Mayans had it right. If you�re going to predict the future, it�s best to aim far beyond your life expectancy, lest you wind up red-faced in a bunker overstocked with Spam and ammo.
I have a KelTec that I carry every now and then. It makes me feel better than carrying nothing -- but not much. I carry it when I would not carry anything larger for various reasons. At the time I purchased it I was advised to use Federal Cartridge Hydra-Shoks. It has never jammed with them and I can hit a gallon jug @ 20 feet regularly. This makes the jug mad!