Do you like the Golden Saber's availability, price, accuracy, firing charcteristics such as accuracy and recoil with muzzle flash?
Have you examined your environment and the possibile locations where you are most likely to need your handgun?
We know that the 185 and 165gr +P rounds where designed to increase velocity and functioning from shorter barreled .45acp handguns, is your gun full size or reduced size? We also know that the 165 and 185gr +P rounds over expand and underpenetrate in game animals (these animals weigh less than the average man) when fired from 5" and longer barrels. Only you can test functionality in your individual firearm, does it function 100%, when you hold the pistol weakhanded, upside down, sideways, with three fingers, how about two? If your pistol/ammo combination will not work in these simple tests then you need to revaluate.
Once you can answer all of those questions for yourself then you will have chosen the "right" ammunition and pistol design to achieve "stopping power". Then go practice with it a lot, even if it means selling off a "collection" to pay for the ammo, you can feel confident that the FBI tested the TRP psitol with a lot of Golden Saber ammo and they will have the budget to practice with the same ammo extensively.
Please guys no more talk of one shot stops and statistics that fail at the first level of examination, if you do not believe me take the "fuller" index and attempt to average it mathematically. We all know that even the .50BMG does not achieve one shot stops 90% of the time, about 70% with center mass hits, you can be assured that the same .50 removes almost all of the vital organs from the chest cavitiy but we have all read the anecdotes/cases where enemy soldiers continued to fire for several minutes.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: David DiFabio on 2001-05-10 11:07 ]</font>