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The bullet's energy is supposed to help it crush, slice, dice, and break up tissue to be effective.
If the slug merely slides and slithers effortlessly through tissue and skin, it'd only give the BG a couple of very large sweat pores - a dramatic display of firepower, resulting to a useless acupuncture.
Translating energy to tissue destruction to effect bleeding requires proper bullet design. But, basic assumptions must be accepted: as in flat-end projectiles crush more rather than slither thru, that larger diameter slugs have greater chances to strike vital tissue, that the deformed metal edges of the peeled jacket slice even more tissue adding to the injury and so on. So, if most of the available energy is converted to the crushing and cutting of tissue, chances are better that the BG will cease hostile activity.
But, if the handgun bullet could be propelled to such speed that even in its rounded form, it still could crush the tough tissues and arteries to effect bleeding by mere mass displacement and impulse, then hollow points would have seen the last of its days.
Until then, I'd always marvel at the spectacle of 'energy dump' of JHP's and exotic bullets stopping those fanatical gelatin and clay blocks.
If the slug merely slides and slithers effortlessly through tissue and skin, it'd only give the BG a couple of very large sweat pores - a dramatic display of firepower, resulting to a useless acupuncture.
Translating energy to tissue destruction to effect bleeding requires proper bullet design. But, basic assumptions must be accepted: as in flat-end projectiles crush more rather than slither thru, that larger diameter slugs have greater chances to strike vital tissue, that the deformed metal edges of the peeled jacket slice even more tissue adding to the injury and so on. So, if most of the available energy is converted to the crushing and cutting of tissue, chances are better that the BG will cease hostile activity.
But, if the handgun bullet could be propelled to such speed that even in its rounded form, it still could crush the tough tissues and arteries to effect bleeding by mere mass displacement and impulse, then hollow points would have seen the last of its days.
Until then, I'd always marvel at the spectacle of 'energy dump' of JHP's and exotic bullets stopping those fanatical gelatin and clay blocks.