I agree. If somebody gets shot in the eye socket, with a .22LR, they are gonna stop attacking. However, I don't think for one minute, I am gonna be able to put that shot in my attacker's eye socket.
Warning! Explicit Description of "Hunting" follows!
True Story: In college, in a home we were sharing, my roommate and I would shoot beverage cans we had emptied
off a picnic table in the back yard about 20' from the back porch we would shoot from. We used a BB 10-pump rifle: Shake, Load/Cock, Pump 3-times, Fire. I forget the brand, Crosman or Daisy with a cheap scope. We became quite adept at the process and could knock a can no problem, even in the porchlight.
One night, after a few "home-brew 'Brain-Death Ales'",
we were shooting at cans on the picnic table. Suddenly, in the distance at the edge of the yard, I noticed the reflection of rabbit eyes from the porchlight. Impulsively (instinctively
), I pumped up to 10 and aimed at the reflection, about 100' away.
Squeezed the trigger and the reflection disappeared. Not sure if I hit anything so we went into the yard and there was the rabbit, dead where I shot it. I hit it in one eye, then probably into the brain, which then blew the other eye out of its socket.
We buried the rabbit in the yard as neither of us knew how to skin and cook it. I still feel bad about not harvesting that rabbit...