The more things change....
....this written in '42, based upon experience gained in the '20's and 30's (from Chapter VII) ...
STOPPING POWER
We approach this subject with considerable diffidence. We regard it as essentially one in which theory should be disregarded in favour of practice, but even practice, as evidenced in carefully noted records over a number of years, does not lead us to any finality in the matter.
Instead, it provides us with so many contradictions that we feel that anything approaching dogmatism would be most unwise.
...and at the close of that chapter, after describing failure to stops with both Webley .445 revolvers firing soft lead bullets and Colt .45 Automatics firing hardball...
Throughout this book we have done our best to emphasise the vital need for extreme rapidity of fire. For ourselves we can accomplish this... most easily with an automatic.
The more closely our own pistols resemble machine-guns the better we like it.
Birdwatcher
