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From: Doctor Doom <JCH8169@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: 1001 Things you can do with a Bow...
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 92 23:15:25 CET
Circuit Breaker wrote:

>now arrows are going to have more momentum than bullets
> ie they hit and keep on going
>bullets are going to have more energy from that high velocity but not
>much momentum (they still have alot)

> also you have to figure in how much pressure is applied to how much
>space (be happy we haven't gotten to this yet)

> bullets have a tendency to spread out (ok they do spread out)
>there by putting there force over a greater area
> this also cause a lots of tissue damage (its not the bullet
>that kills (well sort of) its its vibration)

> arrows hit with one small compact point but don't spread

>>>>>[ Not all bullets spread out. It is true that soft lead, dum-dums,
and
hollow points do, but there are notable exceptions to this. Tumbler bullets
provid their damage by striking the target, and while maintaining a large
amount of its shape, literally turn end over end as it passes through the body,
causing massive tissue damage. Obviously armor-piercing rounds don't
'mushroom' as the phenomena is commonly called. And high-explosive rounds
don't for reasons that are readily apparent.
>One point I think you are missing is that one of the ways bullets kill
a target (this is true, at least, in the higher velocity and larger caliber
ammunition) is via hydrostatic shock. This is where the force of the bullet
striking the body makes shockwaves through (remember: 75% liquid) the
surrounding tissues, causing tremendous damage to internal organs and the like,
by which the immediate vicinity is reduced, for all intents and purposes, to
hamuburger meat. This is why a torso hit with a high caliber or high velocity
bullet, even if it doesn't pierce a major organ, can still kill a
man.]<<<<<
>>-- Doctor Doom <17:06:31/10-23-52>

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