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Poor shot placement, one handed sideways grip shooting while retreating, first 3-4 shots either entirely missed or were well out of the CNS areas, supplemental shots actually start showing effectiveness the closer they get to core organ and CNS areas.
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Exactly.
It's never
where you hit, but
what you hit. Then your opponent takes time to react.
Transecting the CNS is the ONLY way to
force someone to stop. A hit(or hits) anywhere else just starts a countdown timer until their blood pressure drops low enough that they pass out or give up. If you slice a man's throat from ear to ear, completely severing the internal and external carotid arteries it can take up to ten seconds for him to lose consciousness. Bullets rarely do that much damage.
How many shots can be fired in a few seconds, either by you or him? The average person can easily fire four shots per second, not with great accuracy, but at the conversational ranges that deadly force encounters most often occur at, it doesn't take much.
Fortunately close to half of all people shot will voluntarily quit, known as a "psychological stop". Another very significant percentage will faint due to psychogenic shock, the sudden loss of blood pressure from major blood vessels relaxing momentarily, the classic "bad news faint". Upon hitting the ground, most of these instantly regain consciousness.
Both of these can, and often do, result from a wound anywhere of any severity. This applies to people in a
normal physiological and psychological state.
It goes downhill from there.
Shooting too fast and/or filling someone up with lead is sometimes an unfortunate byproduct of shooting at them like they're a flat piece of paper. You must visualize the vital structures in a 3d structure and place rounds there. This requires a somewhat musteline attitude coupled with a cool head, and a certain measure of skill.
Like so many things in life, easier said than done.