Blade and Bullet

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....Knives stabd and pierce organs true. At close range a bullet doesn't leave a hole but a crator. The bullet would shred muscle bone and everything else in it's path while blades are slidghtely deflected by bone and only pierce so far.

[The Janitor]

Nov 15, 2008 22:47:37 GMT -5 The Janitor said:

I wouldn't say that. Like I mentioned above when it comes to poking holes in people to make them die it's a very confusing issue. There has been sooooooooooo much written and said about it's hard to believe anything. If a bullet traveling at a high velocity is useless we'd still be using black powder firearms. Only we're not. General chit-chat on the issue says if you're using a little bullet it better be traveling at over 2000fps. Hard to, if not impossible, to pull off in handguns. Rifles takes us back to a certain issue no one but myself has hinted at. Still it comes back to an opposing view that a bullet traveling that fast isn't going to do that much good. Not unless it hits bone on the way in/out.

Comes back to what I just typed and what somebody said about putting more than one bullet in the guy with the knife. Only I'm going to let everyone else figure out what I've been hinting at for a while. Even then there is a good chance putting more than one round in the guy isn't going to kill him before he kills you. Then again there is a good chance it will. Too confusing to say. I've heard plenty of stories. One where I guy has a run in with the cops, takes a shotgun slug to the chest, gets away from the fight, and survives it. Two that involves a .22 and .25 bullet bouncing off someone's skull. Plenty where many a guy goes down from standard 9mm used by military. A few where a guy goes down from a single .22 lr bullet to the chest. Neither of those cartridges are known as a fight stoppers.

Nov 14, 2008 18:56:29 GMT -5 The Janitor said:

Funny thing about bullet type. When you go further for penetration you lose expansion. When you go further for expansion you lose penetration. Anyone can figure out what either are used for. Only when it comes to poking holes in people to make them die it's a very confusing issue.

Update: Neat story from a reliable source. Guy shot in the chest with a twelve gauge shotgun slug by a police officer. Managed to escape, evade, seek medical attention, and survive.