Posted on 08/22/2016 9:20:16 AM PDT by w1n1
Alliant lists 9mm recipes using Unique from 4.3 (147 gr subsonic)up to 6.3 for a zippy 115 FMJ. So your memory is probably still good.
Good Jefferson quote in your tag line.
Modern HP ammo has 50% expansion. This means that a 9mm bullet (.355) will actually expand to .5325.
Last I checked, .5325 was indeed larger than .45
But .45 expands as well - and is more mass hitting you. My critical need is to knock them down with one shot.
No pistol bullets “actually knocks a guy down” unless he is already in a marginally stable state.
Even rifle bullets generally do not “knock a guy down”.
Bullets destroy tissue and break bones. Central nervous sytem hit, they go down; break a leg or hip bone, they go down in one step.
Hit heart and lungs.. may go down, may stay up for several seconds.
If the person shot knows they are shot, and has been programmed to go down when by television and movies, they may go down.
If they make the same size hole, and travel the same distance through flesh, they will have the same effect.
To do so, the heavier bullet would be traveling slower.
437*16=6992
The author is not correct.
Pretty close. There are 7000 grains in one pound.
Yeah. It’s a figure of speech. ;-)
I probably should say “man stopper”. As was said in one article, the small caliber, high velocity bullet killed the guy, though he continued charging and attacking before he actually died, while the other bullet “stopped him”.
I’m looking for a “man stopper”. Something that stops guys that are hopped up, etc.
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