guess I figured the additional surface area would be advantageous
Again, if you are swinging a gun around by the barrel clubbing shit like DiMaggio and it discharges, where will the bullet go?
Crack a barrel over someone's head and they're not going to laugh it off. For that matter, you could poke someone in the chest with it (without even shooting them) and probably make them think twice about whatever they were doing.
Again, if you are swinging a gun around by the barrel clubbing shit like DiMaggio and it discharges, where will the bullet go?
the only way I'd be swinging the thing is if I was out of bullets
We are talking about s here, not some average urban thug. Stock = blunt trauma damage. Remember the scene from Platoon where the proper application of the stock to a head made it split apart like a melon. That's killing activity, right there. Barrel = laughing it off, and a bent barrel, meaning no more shooting.
Hand-to-hand in situation is a fool's errand entirely. You get tired, they don't.
So what do you do? Just let them eat you?
American superhighway or Bolivian Death Road?
I'm craving some mexican food...like the real stuff, not moe's