Jacketed Soft Points for Self Defense

[Bean Counter]

Cops tend to only hit their target 20% of the time. You can either call it bad marksmanship or a reflection of carrying lots and lots of ammo... Or both 

[ghosthunter]

Both I would think.

Same Deputy told me.....

The FBI did a study of under stress officer shootings.
80% of officers involved in high stress SD shootings said they never saw the gun sites during the event.

He suggested I train for that event.

[Bean Counter]

If he's referencing "Violent Encounters" it is a good read. It's where I got the 20% mentioned above.

[2labs]

Here you go little buddy. Self defense. Hydra-shok. Hope you never have too use them.

[Bofire]

 :)In an OLD study, 25 years or so, the 125 grain HP in a 357 was the highest percentage of "one shot stops" of all the shootings studied. "one shot stop" meant the bad guy stopped trying to hurt someone, not death. I think Sanow and Ayoob were the authors.
Carl

[fish vacuum]

The fact that cops, and people in general, miss their target so much in stressful situations is why I don't buy the argument of overpenetration. It's highly likely that shots will end up beyond their target anyway.
With that said, I still carry HPs for self defense.