Re: FN 5.7 Thoughts?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: turbo54</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I agree with the consensus that the 5.7 round isn't a great choice for animal protection. I think a Glock 20 with 17+1 capacity (with the +2 extension) is about the best choice out there. Loaded properly, you can hit over 800lb-ft, and you've got 18 of them on tap.
All that said, I don't think the 5.7 can be dismissed as quickly as many here have: I hope I don't stir up emotions with this analysis, but it does offer some real "evidence".
Consider the Fort Hood shooting. Nidal Hasan was using an FN 5.7 pistol, and he KILLED 13, wounded 30. That is a 30% kill percentage, performed with a pistol, which are notoriously non-lethal. (Jeff Cooper: "A pistol is only good for fighting your way back to a rifle"). Thank God more weren't killed. Personally, <span style="color: #FF0000">I believe the number killed would have been less if he had employed a 9mm pistol</span>.
I've shot the 5.7 pistol, and I want one. I'm not an amazing pistol shooter, but when I borrowed my sister's boyfriends 5.7, I was amazed at how fast I could accurately deliver shots downrange. At 25 yards, I can hit a 3" circle 20 times out of 20 shots in less than 10 seconds. With my favorite pistol with which I have the most practice (Glock 30), I can hit a 6" circle at 25 yards 10/10 in 20 seconds. </div></div>
I don't dismiss the round out of hand,
In regards to the FT Hood shooting I sat here and did the math compared to Tuscon where much of the distance and circumstance was similar and extrapolated that a 9mm would be nearly twice as deadly. In fairness to your analysis you lowballed the mortality it's above 40% you included the suspect/perpetrator. That jives with a couple studies I saw quoted on shooting voodoo that basically state if you are wounded by a firearm there's a 40% chance you will die, most times at the scene.
It took me several years to even develop an opinion on the 5.7 in pistols or the PDW, and I refused to pass judgement in it without firing it either. Now I am firmly entrenched in my belief that it is essentially a reloadable 22wmr. And whenever the question is posed "would you use a 5.7 for..." I refer to wheather or not I would use a 22wmr. The pistol itself is neat, but lacks many of the qualities that would recommend it for practical usage in defense against meaty targets. Unless you are fulfilling the first rule of a gunfight: and then there are plenty of better and less expensive ways.
For the OP if you already have a 45 that is suitable, as are magnum wheelguns I recall SW sells a DA revolver that holds 8 rds of 357 in very near the same price point as the 5.7.
