Preaching to the choir, you know I love cast bullets with a flat tip. The bone smashing, in and out, is where I live.
Your test numbers are worth revisiting. Not sure what it means but it is interesting. The .357 is twice as much as the 9mm, the rifle and BIG pistols are pretty close and some 12X that of the 9mm as a base. As I said not sure what it correlates to.
I saw on Mythbusters how the impact energy did little to move objects, but how that translates to blood vessels and internal organs is a different matter. I just watched a guy shoot a 2 liter bottle filled with water with a .50 BMG and some 12,000 ft. lb. kinetic energy. My .17 HMR rimfire does more damage! You'd have thought it would have vaporized it. I get more questions every day than I do answers.
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Bullet Pics
- Tracy M, 2019-10-08, 21:04
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- Bullets - Tracy M, 2019-10-09, 12:42
- Thanks! I was hoping you kept the bullet. (nm) - Jim Taylor, 2019-10-09, 07:31
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Amazing how it took all that energy.
- WB, 2019-10-09, 06:34
- I like an exit, helps blood trail and let's air in the wound (nm) - Brian T, 2019-10-09, 12:35
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re:Wouldn’t it be better for expansion to slow it to a stop
- Jim Taylor, 2019-10-09, 07:29
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AMEN TO THAT--ONE HOLE IN ONE HOLE OUT (nm)
- JT, 2019-10-09, 08:07
- plus more of a blood trail if you need to track it (nm) - Gary Reeder, 2019-10-09, 10:45
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Facinating test you did, I can relate
- WB, 2019-10-09, 08:04
- This was basically measuriing "momentum" - Jim Taylor, 2019-10-09, 08:08
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AMEN TO THAT--ONE HOLE IN ONE HOLE OUT (nm)
- JT, 2019-10-09, 08:07
- As mentioned below - Tracy M, 2019-10-08, 21:07