Interesting Study on Stopping Power....

[cbabes]

http://www.neiassociates.org/caliber.htm

Goes through many of the pistol calibers and rates one shot torso stops from real human data.

 

[rangebob]

You might want to visit his website at
http://www.stoppingpower.net/
or buy one of the three or so books on the topic.

BTW, a lot of it is 'balistics gel stopping power'