Quote Originally Posted by Syme View Post
This is not good advice. Your HD weapon's effectiveness should not rely on people deciding to run when they get shot. It should rely on wounding power and thus the ability to incapacitate rapidly. Anything else is irresponsible.
So in order to defend my home I need to be able to kill with the weapon by hitting someone in an easily targeted area(body).

I've only have the experience of shooting a .357, some sort of 9mm, a .22 and I don't remember the name of the other pistol.

If a .22 is not enough to stop an intruder(because unless the person is hopped up on PCP or a ridiculous amount of Adrenaline I think a single .22 shot would be enough to stop someone, and if one isn't that's what the remaining bullets are for), then I'd say a .357 with hollow tipped rounds would be more than enough. But then I do not know if a woman with no experience would be able to fire that accurately, that is why I suggested the .22

Granted I know little about firearms, other than what I've personally used. So my input should be taken with a grain of salt