Interesting. If 7.62 NATO is being used, how many rounds on average would achieve an immediate stop?8 rounds for an immediate stop. That is not the same thing as 8 rounds for a fatal wound. The first one I shot looked at me trying to get his weapon up with two holes about an inch apart center mass of his chest. A bit surprising is an understatement when it occurs in a dirt hut full of bad guys.
One round can be a fatal wound in a vital area but that does mean the target is not going to fight back in there last minutes of life.
1st and 3rd Ranger BN were wiped out at Cisterna Italy on 30 Jan 1944. They were moving up a ditch when a German Sentry blocked the way. Both Battalions waited for the one man who had experience doing a sentry takedown. He successfully slit the sentry's throat fatally wounding him. The blood allowed the sentry to struggle free and he ran off into the camped German Division bivouac site. His thrashing about alerted the Germans and over the next 8 hours they destroyed both Battalions.
A fatal wound is not necessarily an immediate stop. The Regular Army actually changed their training from single shots to making controlled pairs standard because of this issue.
-TL
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