Polyshok: a 12-gauge Slug/Shot hybrid

[Odd Job]

A .22LR in the right place is a reliable fight stopper, and a .50 BMG in the wrong place is not. I do not see 5.56, or even 9x19, as necessarily ineffective. Any bullet which can reliably penetrate to a vital area can be effective in the right hands.
The average person is better off with a small caliber weapon and a lot of good practice than the largest (or stoppingest) weapon, the best rated ammo, and no skills.
The state of mind and physical state of the target figure into this equation as well, to some degree.

Exactly!

[18Z]

The Poly-Shock rep actually brought several cases out for us to shoot when I worked at SFARTAETC...For what we use it for (breaching) I was not impressed I preferred the Hatton rounds we used it was made of compressed graphite untill it hit something solid then it turned to powder so in essence it was a slug if you need to shoot down a hallway in an emergency. The Poly-Shock had small lead pellets about the size of a grain of sand and they were encased in a small plastic cup that tried to keep them together until impact with a hard surface. We saw these rounds as more useful for law enforcement at shooting thru windows, or home defense. As for a breaching round for us it didnt do enough damage and we always got blowback in our face

mike.