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Agree that even a decent body shot will bring an unarmoured person down, even if it doesn't kill him outright.
The 3" dia is admittedly pretty arbitrary, after a carefully considered 10 seconds or so, based on the thought of a fully armoured man advancing toward you (viz. Goliath). To be certain of a "kill", David would have had to hit him above the bridge of the nose, below the line of his helmet, and laterally probably no wider than between the eyes. Now we can have endless discussions about how big Goliath's head would have been and whether a 3" circle (or perhaps it should be a square) is too small.
My point was that, whatever the specifics, even if you decide to sling at a silhouette target like pistol shooters do and accept a hit anywhere on the target as a "kill" you can still quantify accuracy. Nominate the target, nominate the distance and any other constraints, blaze away and publish the results. Everyone will still argue about their meaningfulness, as they do about whether a pig's head is a realistic substitute for a human skull etc. etc. etc. But at least there will be some raw data to argue about.
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