I live in SW WA and have served 8 years in the USAR before being injured and disabled. So now I have to limit my fire arms use to .22 for weight and recoil, my shoulder muscles have weakened over time and it makes for holding larger calibre fire-arms more difficult so I will have to limit my time to .22s. And after reading about the lethality of the .22 calibre it looks like I might make this my defence weapon of choice.