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  • POLICESTATE
    I need a LIFE!!
    • Apr 2009
    • 18185

    If you were going to get shot by a single round...

    Circumstances notwithstanding.

    If you were going to take one round in center mass from any of these rounds, which one would you choose? Secondly, between the two remaining rounds which would you choose? Assuming the goal is survivability.

    Basically 1st choice, 2nd choice, last choice. The first option would be out of the three you'd take the 9mm, then out of the 40 or the 45 you'd take the 40. Because the first question is which out of the three is the caliber you'd rather be hit by, the second question that just naturally follows is out of the remaining two rounds which would you rather be hit by.

    9mm, .40 S&W, .45 ACP
    9mm, .45 ACP, .40 S&W
    .40 S&W, 9mm, .45 ACP
    .40 S&W, .45 ACP, 9mm
    .45 ACP, 9mm, .40 S&W
    .45 ACP, .40 S&W, 9mm

    Crud, I can't figure out how to fix the 45 APC typo in the poll lists. Flame away!
    112
    9mm, .40 S&W, .45 APC
    0%
    85
    9mm, .45 APC, .40 S&W
    0%
    7
    .40 S&W, 9mm, .45 APC
    0%
    2
    .40 S&W, .45 APC, 9mm
    0%
    0
    .45 APC, 9mm, .40 S&W
    0%
    2
    .45 APC, .40 S&W, 9mm
    0%
    16
    -POLICESTATE,
    In the name of the State, and of the School, and of the Infallible Science


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    POLICESTATE
    I need a LIFE!!
    • Apr 2009
    • 18185

    Having problems making into a poll...
    -POLICESTATE,
    In the name of the State, and of the School, and of the Infallible Science


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    • #3
      E Pluribus Unum
      Calguns Addict
      • Dec 2006
      • 8097

      Originally posted by POLICESTATE
      Having problems making into a poll...
      Edit the first post and at the bottom there will be options to make it a poll.
      Originally posted by Alan Gura
      The Second Amendment now applies to state and local governments. Our lawsuit is a reminder to state and local bureaucrats that we have a Bill of Rights in this country, not a Bill of Needs
      Originally posted by hoffmang
      12050[CCW] licenses will be shall issue soon.

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      • #4
        POLICESTATE
        I need a LIFE!!
        • Apr 2009
        • 18185

        Originally posted by E Pluribus Unum
        Edit the first post and at the bottom there will be options to make it a poll.
        that's what I thought, turned out it was a thread option at the top, maybe it changed recently? Anyway, it's fixed now!
        -POLICESTATE,
        In the name of the State, and of the School, and of the Infallible Science


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        • #5
          Mac7504
          Senior Member
          • Oct 2011
          • 745

          Where's the BB gun, paint ball option, and pellet options...lol.

          Rather not.
          http://www.superchevy.com/features/c...s/viewall.html

          Before mods, and other goodies...

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          • #6
            meaty-btz
            Calguns Addict
            • Sep 2010
            • 8980

            NONE OF THE ABOVE.

            I've been shot, it isn't fun. All the listed calibers can kill in one shot to center of mass. All can be survived. It is a matter of luck and speed of medical attention.

            Mostly luck decides if you end up on a silver slab or in a surgery ward.
            ...but their exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.

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            • #7
              SantaCabinetguy
              I need a LIFE!!
              • Feb 2011
              • 15137

              Originally posted by meaty-btz
              NONE OF THE ABOVE.

              I've been shot, it isn't fun.
              Ditto! and details (if you care to share Meaty)?
              Hauoli Makahiki Hou


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              • #8
                duggan
                Senior Member
                • Jun 2011
                • 1821

                None of those.
                My prefernces in order would be.
                1) Nerf dart
                2) Airsoft BB
                3) Spitwad (this is last because I am a bit of a germaphobe and someone spitting on me is grounds for an A__whoopin)
                A gun, like any other source of power, is a force for either good or evil, being neither in itself, but dependent upon those who possess it.

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                • #9
                  tbc
                  Calguns Addict
                  • Jun 2011
                  • 5955

                  Originally posted by meaty-btz
                  NONE OF THE ABOVE.

                  I've been shot, it isn't fun. All the listed calibers can kill in one shot to center of mass. All can be survived. It is a matter of luck and speed of medical attention.

                  Mostly luck decides if you end up on a silver slab or in a surgery ward.
                  Argument is over. Let's move on.

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                  • #10
                    IrishPirate
                    Calguns Addict
                    • Aug 2009
                    • 6390

                    I'm gonna vote 9mm, .40, .45.......only because i wont to be the first and only one to take the poll serious.



                    in reality, I'd rather not get shot at all....with ANY caliber
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                    • #11
                      R1K
                      Member
                      • May 2011
                      • 122

                      none.

                      what is a 45aPc? did you mean .45aCp?

                      Regardless, if there is a 45apc, i still don't want to get shot.

                      But if the poll were to ask, if I were to be executed with the following rounds then I would like to have a quick trip to heaven and take a 45acp - in the head. point blank.
                      Last edited by R1K; 02-17-2012, 12:28 PM.

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                      • #12
                        ILVSMOG
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                        CGN Contributor - Lifetime
                        • Sep 2009
                        • 611

                        Originally posted by duggan
                        None of those.
                        My prefernces in order would be.
                        1) Nerf dart
                        2) Airsoft BB
                        3) Spitwad (this is last because I am a bit of a germaphobe and someone spitting on me is grounds for an A__whoopin)
                        I hate to disagree, but: despite it's lower velocity, the Nerf dart has much more mass and can do more damage than the airsoft BB. The airsoft fanboys will all cry "but ours goes so much faster!" and I know that on paper it may seem a better option from a home defense standpoint, especially when you consider the lower recoil. However, I stand behind the Nerf dart and it's greater mass, combined with much longer service record, as a more lethal round than the airsoft bb.


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                        • #13
                          POLICESTATE
                          I need a LIFE!!
                          • Apr 2009
                          • 18185

                          I disagree, nerf darts suffer to a much greater degree on air resistance than airsoft bb's. Sure if you're shooting at a distance of 2 inches the nerf dart is going to be the more effective round, but at 20 feet, the airsoft bb will hit the target and sting a little, the nerf dart will just bounce off with a soft "plop" sound IF it hits its target.


                          Originally posted by ILVSMOG
                          I hate to disagree, but: despite it's lower velocity, the Nerf dart has much more mass and can do more damage than the airsoft BB. The airsoft fanboys will all cry "but ours goes so much faster!" and I know that on paper it may seem a better option from a home defense standpoint, especially when you consider the lower recoil. However, I stand behind the Nerf dart and it's greater mass, combined with much longer service record, as a more lethal round than the airsoft bb.


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                          In the name of the State, and of the School, and of the Infallible Science


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                          • #14
                            meaty-btz
                            Calguns Addict
                            • Sep 2010
                            • 8980

                            Originally posted by Ubermcoupe
                            Ditto! and details (if you care to share Meaty)?
                            Not really but let's just say wrong place wrong time. I took it to the side at an angle that just punched a nice neat hole in my meat right by my spleen. An inch or so difference could have cost me my life. The bullet was never recovered, in and out. Was a 9mm or .380. No arrest, nothing as it was too dark for me to see who it was or give any description beyond: man, dark, about my height.

                            It hurt, a lot, and bled pretty damn good but was frankly a minor hit. There is a certain psychology about violent injury that is actually harder to deal with than the wound itself usually. A huge "does not compute" when it comes to vital fluids leaking out of a hole that should not be there.

                            It was, in fact, this incident changed me forever. I realized that fear had paralyzed me and left me to whatever mercy I might receive. I decided that day, twenty years ago now abouts, that I would never die without a fight. At the least I will die with my hands about the throat of my attacker. I had been in sticky situations before where I was under threat but I had always come out the other side clean and safe. Even after the guy ran off, I lay unable to move for what seemed like an hour. Not from pain, or the injury, or shock, but from fear.

                            I changed how I think, how I react. I hardened myself and most importantly (more than even physical training) I hardened my mind. Prior to that, I was a hobbyist shooter. I believed in a soft and safe world. I was soft and happy. I still would like a soft and happy world but I know it does not exist unless I make it for myself and others. Badguys and Bad things don't give you a ring and ask if tonight at 02:00 is good for you or if you need to have them reschedule your demise. They just happen, and when they happen it is even odds if you will make it out in one piece. We are surrounded by evil men. They walk by us every day in the street. You get ONE CHANCE usually. I got a second one. I make as good a use of it as I can. I can assure you one thing, just as with cops, that one time you don't expect it is when it happens. We are as at risk every day as the cop on his patrol. We don't have body armor or qualified immunity or even often a side-arm. That is why on occasion I have gone on a rant that got me temp-banned at a forumite who was not "psychologically in the game". I take this very seriously.
                            Last edited by meaty-btz; 02-17-2012, 12:46 PM.
                            ...but their exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.

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                            • #15
                              SantaCabinetguy
                              I need a LIFE!!
                              • Feb 2011
                              • 15137

                              Originally posted by meaty-btz
                              Not really but let's just say wrong place wrong time. ...
                              I changed how I think, how I react. I hardened myself and most importantly (more than even physical training) I hardened my mind. Prior to that, I was a hobbyist shooter. I believed in a soft and safe world. I was soft and happy. I still would like a soft and happy world but I know it does not exist unless I make it for myself and others.
                              Wow... Thanks for sharing and glad you survived.

                              I think that last part really summarizes how some people (especially those that cry for disarmament) feel about the world.
                              Hauoli Makahiki Hou


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