.380ACP Carry Ammo Question

[moooose102]

i am going to have to read this article later and get back to you on it. because right now, i have to go fix my truck. but from reading your posts i have to say to things. 1) who cares about a vest? if i am shooting someone with a vest on it had better be with my 300 win mag, not my .380. and 2) a knife, and a bullet kill in two different ways ( at least that is the knowledge i have now). a knife slices through flesh severing arteries and veins, so you hemmorage to death. a bullet, while this can happen, from my unserstanding, kills through hydraulic shock. ruptering membranes and all kinds of neat stuff (basicly turning flesh to mush) and transfering the hydraulic shock to the nervous system. maybe this article will teach me a thing or two i didn't know.

 

[JR47]

Bullets actually cut, just like a knife, in many cases. There is a growing body of evidence that even pistol caliber bullets are capable of creating a neurological component in the subject, as well. Hydro-static shock, sort of like when you belly-flop, is also a widely known phenomena, but usually occurs only beyond a certain velocity/energy level.

The point of the discussion with the knife is that it requires work to plunge a knife into a body. It's not like it passes effortlessly into the flesh, bone, and cartilage of the subject. Many people aren't capable of mustering the force necessary to completely push the entire blade into a subject. The energy required to do so is absorbed by the body, through the knife.

Energy cannot be destroyed, it may be transferred. The idea that a bullet that enters the body, slowing dramatically, or even stopping in the body, somehow doesn't transfer it's energy into that body is hard to find in science.

 

[cottonmouth]

.380

I'm guessing that no matter what grain bullet you shoot, the bad guy will not know the diffrence. He will eigther fall or run like hell.

J.B.

 

[rsilvers]

http://www.brassfetcher.com/90 grain Federal Personal Defense Hydra-Shok.html

These seemed to go 12 inches.

 

[rsilvers]

http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=175606

These seemed to go 12 inches.