Originally Posted by
Dagga Boy
I ll make this fairly simple as we do for our students. Make a fist.....put it high in the chest with the base around the arm pit line on top of the sternum....that is where bullets need to go at any angle or orientation. Take the same fist with the base of the hand where it joins the wrist at the bottom of the nose....this is where bullets need to go. You need the ability to hit those fists. You need ammunition that will penetrate enouh to get deep into those areas.
I have seen enough, takes to enough people and been to enough autopsy's and witnessed enough shootings to to highly confident with this solution. Most of the folks I have talked to have confirmed exactly what I have seen...modern high performance ammunition in those two fist sized areas stop fights "right now" in the first case and "instantly" in in the second. Doctors can't fix these. You will not be okay, and your body knows that. Are there anomaly's.....of course. They are very few and far between contrary to rumor and mythology. The stories of crooks with their heart blown apart fighting for several minutes with no effect often turn out to be a lung shot only or a gut shot with the accuracy enhanced by the third retelling of the story. There are crooks out there with pistol bullet scars all over their body's (often with stab wounds). What you don't see is them pointing at a sternum where a high performance bullet entered.
We emphasize heavily on accuracy and heavily try to get people to re-think "acceptable" targeting that is often the entire upper torso. The entire torso will soak up a ton of pistol bullets. It also does not account for movement that is often extreme and blindingly fast to move those two sweet spots. That movement is often amplified in close range at how fast you have to be to track and why so many miss in close because they are using "acceptable" targeting and the speeds associated with that for a problem that actually requires a shot we would associate with a greater distance, yet tracked at high speed.
This is an opinion based on experience. Take it as that. Training to this has resulted in high levels of success in fights for those who have trained to this type of standard. Want to do something else...awesome, but we will continue on this path.