Posted on 03/27/2017 7:01:29 AM PDT by w1n1
I worked in the ER when a woman was brought in for gsw in the neck with a .38 in her neck. The bullet whizzed around in her chest severing her pulmonary vein/artery. We couldn’t pour blood in fast enough to keep her alive long enough to do surgery. She was shot from about 4 feet away.
She had no idea she had been shot.
The latter. Your flesh is softer than a steel gun barrel, so the muzzle blast will go inside you, causing more damage than if just the bullet went in. It happens frequently in street crime.
She was lucky to be a liberal that day. The bullet hit her brain instead of damaging an organ that she had ever used.
I believe it hits maximum velocity at the muzzle or at most a few inches beyond the muzzle.
Yeah, I surmised they really meant “close contact” or equivalent...
Thanks for defining “point blank” for the author...Words do indeed have meaning...
“Would you be able to take any of these shots holding up”
???
I don’t recommend it. Even with a vest it hurts like a MoFo.
“Although most people think it’s worse getting shot at close range than from afar, physics says otherwise. The bullet accelerates at a rate until it reaches max velocity. At close range it is not at max velocity. “
Please explain how a bullet accelerates after leaving the barrel ...
“Why post this crap?’
Clicks ...
Good thing, that wikipedia, the open sourced bastion of (sic) knowledge!
In real ballistics and terminal performance there is an actual definition, not common usage by the television experts. Words have meaning.
I would like to hear the apparent exception to the laws of conservation of energy....
Even if the “jet” effect of propellant gases exiting behind a bullet at the moment it exits the muzzle exerts some additional force to the bullet ( which I personally doubt), the forces of drag begin at that exact moment too, so external forces demand deceleration from then on.
Ask gr8
“In real ballistics and terminal performance there is an actual definition, not common usage by the television experts. Words have meaning.”
True, but if everyone else goes by the popular definition, you just have to roll with it.
Only if you want to perpetuate the error....
Clip- Magazine, yeah, most folks get the meaning, but that still is an error of fact, Just like “Pump action semi automatic” weapon.
No more from me on this topic. Folks can choose to be ill informed and “go with the flow” if they want, but words and terms still matter. Ask any Judge or Trial Attorney, or ballistician or (real) scientist....
Regards;
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