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To: Chasaway

At 10 ft a .223 is going to go into the back of the head then the pressure will basically blow the face off. It will look like jelly. If that didn’t happen then it likely richocheted off the floor went into her head and fragmented.


47 posted on 05/02/2016 3:08:10 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

The floor was concrete with a linoleum covering.Most .223 bullets would break up when hitting the concrete,the fragments coming off the floor should be in a shotgun like pattern.


82 posted on 05/02/2016 3:48:50 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

That’s the way I see it, too.

If it didn’t go completely through.

As I told the client, I would’ve expected it to be through her and out the kitchen window before she knew what hit her.

Thanks

C


86 posted on 05/02/2016 3:53:13 PM PDT by Chasaway (Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?)
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To: Georgia Girl 2; Chasaway
Georgia Girl 2 said: At 10 ft a .223 is going to go into the back of the head then the pressure will basically blow the face off. It will look like jelly. If that didn’t happen then it likely richocheted off the floor went into her head and fragmented.

I think this I'd the most probable general assessment your going to get here about a straight shot at ten feet. Unless ballistics can show a fragmenting round of some kind, and assuming FMJ solid point (designed to tumble at 223 caliber), this is very likely what would happen. So if the victim still has a face, and the bullet is in the skull (and therefore it can be confirmed as a solid point), it probably, was not a straight shot. There's just to much power in the round at a mere ten feet, which is virtually point-blank range for a rifle, not to have otherwise blown the face off while exiting the head.

113 posted on 05/02/2016 5:35:11 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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