Well if you must know, I was shot with a HP in the left shoulder, it broke apart.
You misunderstood my remark.
Your initial comment implied that unless someone has been shot, they aren't qualified to comment on the topic. That is incorrect. It is roughly equivalent to saying that unless someone eats a rotten egg, they can't possibly understand that it's a bad idea to eat a rotten egg. In fact, people are quite capable of avoiding eating rotten eggs even without ever having to eat one, and without even ever having to ask for advice from someone who has eaten one.
You imply that being shot is a pre-requisite to understanding bullet terminal performance. That is not true. One does not need to be shot to understand bullet terminal performance. One need not be in an airplane crash to be an expert on analyzing airplane crashes. A person does not need to have had brain surgery performed upon them to be a brain surgeon. A person does not need to be stabbed before he can become an expert on sharpening knives.
You imply that being shot makes a person an expert on bullet terminal performance. That is not true. Being shot does not make one an expert on terminal performance any more than being in an airplane crash makes someone an expert on airplane crashes, being stabbed makes someone an expert on knives, or catching Ebola makes one an expert on hemorrhagic viruses.
A FMJ would have gone thru the bone and maybe killed me.
There are two problems with your argument. First of all, anecdotes tend to be gripping but they are not the same as
sound reasoning or compelling evidence.
It is interesting to hear of someone's experiences, but those experiences do not necessarily add to our insight of a particular phenomenon. For example, listening to someone tell of becoming sick after eating bad seafood doesn't provide us with any information we didn't already have. We already know that bad seafood can cause sickness, just as we know that sometimes bullets blow up on bone.
The second problem is basing conclusions on
speculation that is built upon the foundation of an anecdote. Maybe an FMJ bullet would have gone through the bone, maybe not. Maybe it would have killed you if it had gone through the bone, maybe not.
Maybe an expanding bullet of a different design would have gone through the bone and killed you. Maybe not.
We don't know what "would have" happened or what "maybe" would have been the result.
