Stopping Power

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For some unknown reason I carried an old and ugly S&W 64..about a 4 incher even in summer small of the back gun. Stainless and ugly anyway. Carried with if i remember correctly 38 spec 125 gr hollowpoints. Course I never had to shoot anybody with it thankfully but I got it used for a 100 bucks..sold it many years later for 200 and it wasn't any prettier than when I bought it.. I shot foxes groundhogs and a couple of close deer with it. Never failed. I dispatched a rabid coon with my S&W 669(??) and with all the jumping around etc etc had to shoot the blasted thing 6 times with 9mm hollowpoints. That gun resides in someone else's house these days and I carry a 6 inch 5 screw Highway Patrolman(or my Wilson combat) around the ranch most of the time stoked with 125 gr 38 Spec hollowpoints. Dispatched every coyote I have shot with it..one round one kill. I have even killed Jacks out to almost 100 yds with it.....somehow.