Large caliber vs. small caliber debate

[mt100gr.]

Big bore karma is smiling down on me - a 338 Ultra Mag barrel fell out of the sky today. Lol

You shot spotters knock yourselves out shooting too far, thinking walking shots onto target is somehow good technique, and griping about calibers that have cleanly been taking game. What a strange world.

Non-stop drivel. Nice!

 

[Dave0317]

Still, because this is such a common statement against using smaller calibers, one must assume that large-caliber shooters are experiencing repeated less-than-ideal shots and are trying to help educate small-caliber shooters about this.

Furthermore, the large-caliber shooters say that the small-caliber guys have to shoot the animal multiple times because they use too small a caliber. When large-caliber shooters have follow-up shots on animals, they are proving to the small-caliber shooters how tough animals are and how under-gunned the small-caliber shooter is. Again, based on their experience, the large-caliber shooters are helping to educate the small-caliber shooters because they don't want them to repeat the same mistakes they are doing.





Merry Christmas & Yippe-Ki-Yay MF's

good observations there.

Reminds me of a handgun study on defensive shootings a while back. They compiled data from a number of shootings involving different calibers of handguns vs bad guys. They did not include misses as a data point.

.44 mag had a track record of almost all 1 shot stops. 9mm on average resulted in a person being shot 3-5 times before they “stopped”. One could draw the conclusion that 44 mag is a far superior cartridge right?

However, when you consider recoil recovery and double-action trigger stroke length and weight typical of the .44 mag chambered guns vs a striker fired semi auto, the most common action type for a 9mm…you see a more fully painted picture that shows you can more easily place multiple rounds on a target in a short period of time with the latter. Did nothing to show lethality of one or the other, just that in a 3 second gunfight, the .44 mag guys managed to get one hit on target and the 9mm shooters got 3-5.