There have been some good points made here and I expected to hear more flack against Old Cooper. Is he a bit dated? Maybe but he has always been a fan of the 308 and 30-06. Not by writing a lot about them but by his lack of being negative to them. Thats sort of a praise from Cooper. When it comes to velocity in Combat pistols, we are generally not looking at great differences. Wound channel and size is more critical than speed. The magic number, if there is one for the speed kills idea is claimed by the experts to be about 2500 fps+. Combat pistols don't aproach these levels. Therefore according to guys Like Keith and Cooper, if there is lack of velocity, then you need bullet weight and size. Velocity and big heavy bullets both kill. They just sort of do it in different ways. As someone else said here you might compare the big bullets to an arrow. There is of course some schock involved as well. The Big bullete at High speed have it all as Weatherby proved. This of course comes with a price, Meatd damage and some pretty awful recoil.
Anyone who has read Cooper for a while has most likely been offended buy something he said or an I dea he has. Thats his strength as a writer. You can bet on one thing. He won't often change his mind.
