OzOne wrote:
I was the best marksman in my class by a very small margin.
Smith & Wesson .38 Police Special and you had to be good to hit
anything further than 6 metres away

What class? These little noisemakers aren't much for accuracy anyway.
It's not uncommon for them to throw ten degrees off their sights... 6
meters? Shucks, sometimes you can't hit anything further out than arm's
reach! But it's still better than waving a knife.

At one point I had a couple of special caliber single shot pistols that
could pop a small target (say, beer can sized) from 200 yards. Not what
you need for home defense though

DSK