Conan O’Brien has 32 Million reasons to not like Jay Leno and to retire, for now…

Jay Leno has the Tonight Show back, has little honor, and learned nothing…

We all now see what a professional Johnny Carson was when he let Leno take his spot.

I wish we could have Carson back…

There are too many “experts” on every subject.

In my opinion, there are too many subjective thoughts that enter people’s “objective” opinions.

People might like a particular car and find ways to justify their finding that it is “the best” whatever…

Similar with firearms and Ammunition…

Firearms

Many ‘experts’ talk about the 1911, the Sig, or (insert your firearm choice here)…

The question to ask is are any of them suggestion or opinion that a gun is the best that isn’t their carry gun? If there are ‘many’ experts who disagree on the ‘best’ gun, why do you think there IS a ‘best’ gun?

What is ‘right’ for one person may not be ‘right’ for another even though it ‘not being right’ doesn’t make it ‘wrong’ for anyone else…

What I mean is that IF I like the Sig P239 for my CCW, others may disagree. People can say “It is too heavy” or doesn’t offer enough rounds for the weight/cost. They could opine that the P239 in .40 is too heavy, too expensive, sits too high in the hand, … The Sig P239 may still be the ‘right’ gun for me. I don’t care what everyone else says because I am not everyone else… I don’t have their hands, their stance, their experience, … I have me and mine. As long as I shoot it well, like the gun, and carry it, it IS the best gun for me regardless if everyone else in the world hates the gun in question. Comprende?

If someone else says the best CCW is a 1911 in .45 ACP because… That may be the best gun for them. How does their choice affect me in any way? Because they ‘justify’ their definition of ‘best?’ Give me a break… If placement is all (we will get to this in a minute..), why does their thought on weight, bore-axis, safety placement, decocker location, etc. make any difference? An opinion, theirs and mine, relates to MY thoughts and may not mean anything to anyone else.

Who cares? Why do people need to feel as if they have people agreeing they have made the ‘best’ gun or ‘best’ choice? Be happy with the gun you use and be happy everyone else doesn’t agree–we couldn’t afford that single firearm then could we?

Diversity in thought is a GOOD thing… Try to remember that everyone is entitled to their opinion, BUT that opinion doesn’t make any differing opinion mean that the ‘others’ who share that ‘differing opinion’ are ‘wrong…’ That is hard for people to do–separate the subjective from the objective. However, practice thinking that way helps, so practice…

Ammunition

Chuck Hawks has a site where he discusses guns, bullets (aka, ammunition), and other items. He states

I agree with him when he states

I cannot stress too heavily that the primary determinant of stopping power is BULLET PLACEMENT.

He states a .32 is better if carried and well-placed (head, torso, …) when shot than a .45 ACP that is at home or used to shoot a person in the foot or finger.

I also agree with him when he states

One should carry only hollowpoint ammunition in a defensive handgun.

The reason is that solid metal bullets (ball) often go in and out of the person being shot. The exiting bullet can hit someone else as it can travel quite some distance past the person being shot. You want to stop the lethal threat not create lethal threat to an innocent bystander or neighbor. A hollowpoint, by design, is supposed to expand upon hitting the target–the idea is to enter the body, expand, and stop in the body.

What do I disagree with?

An attacker shot twice with ball ammo will probably have four holes in him rather than two, and is thus in far greater danger of death from blood loss.

Lets think about this for a second… If there are two 8″ holes in a gallon of water, the gallon of water with two holes may empty the gallon of water quicker. If the water in the gallon container is in a sponge, the limiting factor to “bleeding out” may be how fast the blood enters the wound channel (the pipe) rather than the size of the pipe… Remember, blood lose from a shot to the foot may be less than that from a wound to the heart… Placement is king.

We all have our preferences. While I see many carrying 230grain JHP ammunition in their .45 handguns, I don’t think that is ‘better’ than the 185grain JHP. Why? Because statistics show…

Statistics can show anything. If the person threatened with the loss of their life has either ammunition and places their shots well, there is no difference in the outcome–the attacker is stopped. Hell, ammunition in .380 ACP or 9mm would be just as effective wouldn’t it?

Remember, as Chuck states…

I cannot stress too heavily that the primary determinant of stopping power is BULLET PLACEMENT.

Summary

Choice is, by definition, subjective. While statistics may say the X is ‘best,’ I may still chose to use Y. You don’t have to agree, and you don’t have to like it. I’m not saying you are ‘wrong,’ and I would ask why you feel some need to be ‘right,’ although you might not be… Let others be different and do what they want.

I guarantee you aren’t always right. If you think you are, you have already been wrong…