I think my spell/grammer checker was taking a nap on my last post!

I think this has a whole lot more to do with your choice of firearm. I've heard *nothing* but bad things about Taurus. It's cheap...and it's cheap.

I carry RBCD frangible rounds in my .380 because .380 just seems a little too small. If they give even a slight increase in performance than that's great. The comments about 15 seconds of oxygen are true, but if your solid slug doesn't hit anything important than they'll never stop. In theory, frangible rounds will hit more vital objects with a smaller fragment.

There is a bottom-line, though: if they worked the best then police and military would carry them. Why don't they? It's not like they can't afford it.

I am pretty sure the geniva convention only allows round nose non-expanding ammunition for the military.

As for frangibles not going through walls, from what I've read they go through, and they'll cause damage on the other side or the wall, but they don't penetrate too well. Here's some additional information from a guy that shoots stuff.
http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot4.htm
http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot2.htm

Simply out of completeness, I'd like to see the ol' Box O Truth with drywall and then a wall stud, both the "fat" way and the "long" way. I think there's probably a good chance that any round fired in a residential setting isn't going to necessarily be travelling perpendicular to a wall, but is instead going to be at some angle to the wall and may strike/deflect off of wall studs.

It'd also be interesting to add other potential (though less likely) obstacles -- iron pipe, copper pipe, sheet metal -- that one might find in a wall. Not that any of those things is going to do much to stop the bullet, but because I kind of hate loose ends.

You find the answer to that and I will seriously consider paying you a finders fee. hehe. I'd love to do this. I used to do some backyard ballistics (read to say "shooting random stuff") on old farmland that I used to hunt. They put their large junk in the woods in piles, so we found a whole bunch of stuff to shoot. I found out, for example, what a .22 vs. 00 buckshot vs. #6 birdshot will do to a car door. (BTW, if you want to shoot someone through a car door, 00 buck is definitely better than a .22 or birdshot. ) How fast I can shoot a hubcap swinging on a rope with a .22 accurately, and other completely useless points of stupid knowledge. It was fun. We just wished we could safely shoot some of the other stuff in the pile without potentially killing ourselves. Some of that stuff was pretty solid. We wanted to see if we could punch holes in them, but were just a tad scared of a richochet.

I considered picking up a few acres to do some pistol shooting until I looked at the prices of any rural acreage and it suddenly became a lot less desirable.

I have a possible location about an hr from either downtown......I will check it out........

But, how far out do you have to go before it isn't against the law to shoot in the "backyard"?