Originally Posted by
Fromk
My "zipping through" comment is related to self defense. If someone is charging at you I want as much chance as possible that shooting them will stop them and preferably with one shot. It's not saying that getting shot with .22 can't be deadly but for every story (and they're just that and mostly hunting related) of one tearing something's insides apart there is one of it bouncing off a piece of bone and leaving nothing but a small flesh wound. Mostly it's somewhere in between.
I believe that the assassins in question also used them at point blank. Hinckley managed to not kill anyone with six shots from 15 feet way despite hitting someone in the head and using crazy explosive ammo.