Deus Machina
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It takes some serious speed to make hydrostatic shock anything more than a negligible factor. This makes a different in rifles; a bullet that disrupts in some manner will cause larger cavitation.
Handguns generally don't do that. Especially ones you can handle in quick succession, in close quarters, in the dark. Especially if you can't put at least one right where it needs to go.
What a JHP does do is make a bigger hole. Or, at the least, not a smaller one.
And while a .46" hole may not be that much bigger than a .355" hole (to use HST through gel as an example) it's .105" a problem's lung or liver is less happy about.
Handguns generally don't do that. Especially ones you can handle in quick succession, in close quarters, in the dark. Especially if you can't put at least one right where it needs to go.
What a JHP does do is make a bigger hole. Or, at the least, not a smaller one.
And while a .46" hole may not be that much bigger than a .355" hole (to use HST through gel as an example) it's .105" a problem's lung or liver is less happy about.