Double Naught Spy
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The only thing that you can really count on is that bullets don't get smaller when they hit the target.
Actually, some do, and were designed to do so.
The only thing that you can really count on is that bullets don't get smaller when they hit the target.
There are four ways in which shooting someone stops him:
I. psychological -- "I'm shot, it hurts, I don't want to get shot any more."
II. massive blood loss depriving the muscles and brain of oxygen and thus significantly impairing their ability to function
IV. breaking major skeletal support structures
V. damaging the central nervous system.
... I doubt anyone here would disagree that a .50 BMG shot to the middle torso has a much better chance of immediately incapacitating an assailant than a .22 LR shot at precisely the same spot. ...
If you changed nothing about the rounds except the velocities ... sending a 22LR type projectile at ~3000fps and a .50BMG type projectile at 1000fps ... the effects would be mostly (comparatively/qualitatively) reversed.
I think you would be disappointed with the truth of that.
The soft lead 22LR would likely break up in the barrel with that kind of centrifugal force, if it did hit something it would splat. A 750 grain 50 caliber projectile @ 1000 FPS is still going to do massive damage.
Why?Model12Win said:I think we can all agree that the .45 ACP has the greatest potential to stop of all the defensivie calibers....
Sadly very true.zombietactics said:Well, we've reached the part of our program where people just start posting up gun-counter-tough-guy clichés as if they are holy writ from on high.
It generally goes downhill from there/here.
I think we can all agree that the .45 ACP has the greatest potential to stop of all the defensivie calibers.
That doesn't mean the .45 ACP will stop, at least 100% of the time, but all things considered bigger bullets tend to work better and you aren't getting much bigger than the .45 ACP.
Also, while the other calibers might expand the .45 will never shrink.
It's what I trust my life with day in, day out. Nothing else will do for me, because I don't live my life hoping for the best.
I demand it.
-M12 Winny
Until he is willing to provide his own deceased loved ones or his own deceased pets for testing purposes, I hope he can understand that balistics gel might be the best option for ammunition testing in a controlled environment free of additional variables that must be accounted for.
Stopping power, true or fiction?