An Alternate Look at Handgun Stopping Power

This is an interesting article written by one of the instructors @ the Tactical Defense Institute of Ohio


An Alternate Look at Handgun Stopping Power: Buckeye Firearms Assoc.

It's not the end-all be-all of caliber debate / discussion but it definitely worth taking a look at.


About the author:

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Greg Ellifritz is a 16-year veteran police officer, spending the last 11 years as the fulltime tactical training officer for his central Ohio agency. In that position, he is responsible for developing and instructing all of the in-service training for a 57-officer police department. Prior to his training position, he served as patrol officer, bike patrol officer, precision marksman, and field training officer for his agency.

He has been an active instructor for the Tactical Defense Institute since 2001 and a lead instructor for TDI’s ground fighting, knife fighting, impact weapons, active shooter, and extreme close quarters shooting classes.

Greg holds instructor, master instructor, or armorer certifications in more than 75 different weapons systems, defensive tactics programs, and law enforcement specialty areas. In addition to these instructor certifications, Greg has trained with most of the leading firearms and edged weapons instructors in the country.

Greg has been an adjunct instructor for the Ohio Peace Officer’s Training Academy, teaching firearms, defensive tactics, bike patrol, knife defense and physical fitness topics. He has taught firearms and self defense classes at the national and international level through the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors, The American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers and Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police. He has a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Management and has written for several publications including: ‘The Firearms Instructor”, “Ohio Police Chief”, “Combat Handguns”, “Concealed Carry Magazine” and “The Journal of the American Women’s Self Defense Association”.

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Excellent article ...thanks for posting it...Semper Fi.....JJ


GO HOKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was very interesting, indeed. Thanks for putting it up here.

Interesting read!! Thanks

Great article VA, here's another one worth a read seemingly they pretty much come to the same conclusion.

What You Need to Know About Stopping Power

About the author: Lt. Dave Spaulding (Ret.)
Dave Spaulding is a retired law enforcement officer with 28 years of experience. Having retired as a Lieutenant from the Montgomery County (Ohio) Sheriff's Office, he worked in all facets of law enforcement including Communications, Corrections, Court Security, Patrol, Evidence Collection, Investigations, Undercover Operations and Training. He spent 12 years on the SWAT team, 8 of which as Training Officer. He supervised his agency's training program for five years and spent five years as the commander of a federally funded, multi-agency Narcotics Task Force that worked investigations from Miami to Seattle.
Dave has a Bachelor's Degree in Social Psychology from the University of Dayton with a minor in Physical Education. He is a graduate of most of the major firearms training schools including Thunder Ranch, Gunsite, the Smith & Wesson Academy, the SIG Arms Academy, the Heckler & Koch International Training Division, Defense Training International, CQB Services, Ltd., the Tactical Defense Institute and the Mid South Institute for Self Defense Shooting. He has been a multiple attendee and presenter at the international training conferences for ASLET and IALEFI and was the host for the 2004 international training conference for IALEFI. He has served as an adjunct instructor for H & K, the Tactical Defense Institute and is a past president of the Ohio Tactical Officer's Association.

Very Good articles, I am an avid believer in shot placement, and multiple shots, shoot what ya bring is my opinion....

A 10 year study to tell us what we already knew. If hit in the right spot all the major rounds (.38, .357. 9mm, .40, .45) are all about the same!

Caliber doesn't count until the shooter has achieved adequate shot placement. It has, and always will be that way. The old saying that "a hit with a .22 beats a miss with a .45", has been around much longer than most of the highly learned authors that bless us with their thoughts on long-established experience.

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Originally Posted by NMpops

A 10 year study to tell us what we already knew. If hit in the right spot all the major rounds (.38, .357. 9mm, .40, .45) are all about the same!

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While that may be the case for some, there are plenty that don't know and even for those of us that do know, it's always nice to have supporting data. :smt1099

I will Save this info for my ccw classes, that ? always comes out.
I stopped at a lgs just kill time, bad work :] a lady and the sales person slid over to me looking threw the glass , holding her new ccw card in her hand.
She seemed pissed off at the sales man for showing the 9mm pistols to her. I heard her say 2' from me. { I want a one stop shot gun } ! I had to step
in and told her I am A NRA instructor and can I help ? sales man smiled at me, like thanks ! Told her about the new sd ammo and everyone needs a22lr
pistol to cross training, with the price of ammo ! Someone missed a big part of teaching her the basics !