self defense
ck: I wrote back yesterday about this topic and thought I wa absolutely right in advising you the way I did. But, I also checked with my attorney last night and we had a pretty good discussion about it.
He felt that if you carry reloads that are designed to expand and cause a non-healing wound, like the Police/FBI loads do or did, that is when the defense attorney would paint the picture of your being a gunslinger out looking for trouble and the first opportunity to test out your death-dealing reloads. But he also felt that if you were carrying reloads that were/are not designed to expand/blow up, peel back or cause some sort of a non-healing wound, and if these reloads were at the same power levels as factory ammunition then you would not be seen as someone with an agenda to knock off every criminal you could find.
It is interesting that a bunch of years ago my late wife had to use her 38 snubbie in a defensive situation. Upon investigation, the Police Officer remarked that she was glad my wife had been shooting the older Police loads (158 grain SWCs) because the Judge didn't like those nasty 'peel-back' hollow-points that are available now.
A friend purchased one of S&Ws new Titanium 38 when the first came out and two boxes of the recommended 125 grain non +P loads - waste of money on those loads. He was afraid to shoot reloads because one gunwriter said the bullets might back out of the cases when fired from a light weight revolver. My 200 and 158 grain SWCs at factory velocity and pressures and my 148 grain wadcutters at factory velocities all performed better from his revolver than the factory loads did and he now carries standard 158 grain SWCs.
King's point is all too well taken, and appreciated. Especially because you feel the need to be able to defend yourself, the authority to do anything but that is beyond you. If a fatal experience occurs to an aggressor because of your defending yourself you must absolutely be pictured as 'The Victim' who was forced to defend himself, not the 'Cowboy' who was out lookin' for trouble.
And to be honest I think you can do as well at defending yourself with SWCs from a snubbie as you could with the jsps or jhps. Mikey.
ck: I wrote back yesterday about this topic and thought I wa absolutely right in advising you the way I did. But, I also checked with my attorney last night and we had a pretty good discussion about it.
He felt that if you carry reloads that are designed to expand and cause a non-healing wound, like the Police/FBI loads do or did, that is when the defense attorney would paint the picture of your being a gunslinger out looking for trouble and the first opportunity to test out your death-dealing reloads. But he also felt that if you were carrying reloads that were/are not designed to expand/blow up, peel back or cause some sort of a non-healing wound, and if these reloads were at the same power levels as factory ammunition then you would not be seen as someone with an agenda to knock off every criminal you could find.
It is interesting that a bunch of years ago my late wife had to use her 38 snubbie in a defensive situation. Upon investigation, the Police Officer remarked that she was glad my wife had been shooting the older Police loads (158 grain SWCs) because the Judge didn't like those nasty 'peel-back' hollow-points that are available now.
A friend purchased one of S&Ws new Titanium 38 when the first came out and two boxes of the recommended 125 grain non +P loads - waste of money on those loads. He was afraid to shoot reloads because one gunwriter said the bullets might back out of the cases when fired from a light weight revolver. My 200 and 158 grain SWCs at factory velocity and pressures and my 148 grain wadcutters at factory velocities all performed better from his revolver than the factory loads did and he now carries standard 158 grain SWCs.
King's point is all too well taken, and appreciated. Especially because you feel the need to be able to defend yourself, the authority to do anything but that is beyond you. If a fatal experience occurs to an aggressor because of your defending yourself you must absolutely be pictured as 'The Victim' who was forced to defend himself, not the 'Cowboy' who was out lookin' for trouble.
And to be honest I think you can do as well at defending yourself with SWCs from a snubbie as you could with the jsps or jhps. Mikey.
