[jimhigginbotham]

.45, until they make a nice concealable .46 for a reasonalbe price (life was so simple before the .50 G.I.

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Onward,
Jim

 

[jimhigginbotham]

The "appeal to authority" argument does not impress me too much, since often the there is a lot of uwarranted assumption of authority. Neither do most polls give much hard and fast ground for decision making.

However, Scott Reitz, retired LAPD SWAT officer and fairly well known trainer had an interesting article in SWAT last month. He related his informal survey of the several different divisions of LAPD who get into the most gunfights (last time I checked these units have a gunfight every 30 to 45 days!) and many of whom can chose their own caliber (SWAT carries 1911s but the other divisions carry their choice from a laundry list of authorized guns and calibers).

Of those dozens (if not hundreds) of officers *in those divisions - not the entire LAPD*, 100% of them opted for the .45 ACP chambering (I got the impression that this is in several different makes and models). You can't get 100 cops to agree on what color the squad cars should be!

While that is not the be all end all, nor is it "scientific". I think it does mean a little something. I supose at best I find it "interesting."

Onward,
Jim

 

[jimhigginbotham]

I hope I don't sound like a wet blanket and I really do think that mind set and attitude count a lot more than caliber but it might be good to recall that Gen. George A. Custer had confidence: "We've got 'em now boys!"

Confidence is critical...but it is not everything

Just musing,
Have a great day!
Jim