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Posted on 04/20/2006 2:10:46 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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A large bore rifle bullet (a sniper would use a .308, 30-06 or similar) to the back wouldn't interfere with an open casket funeral. The bullet, lets say it went in between ribs... would hydrostatically kill the target just with the impact shock. The instant pressure surge would likely explode a heart ventricle, or maybe a major artery, crush the lungs... and exit out the front through a bigger hole than in the back.
Hitting the spine would of course cut the spinal cord, and that or hitting a rib would possibly fragment the bullet into a couple of pieces, that might or might not even exit out the other side.
I like it not to exit out the other side.
Thanks.
That just sounds way cool. I think someone in my next story needs shooting....
I like when bullets don't enter the first side, let alone exit the other. Only that does make for a better novel.
Tomorrow is Friday. That's a good thing. I get paid. That's better. I should be able to make downpayments on all the weddin' professionals, assuming I find a caterer soon.
Hydrostatic shock is an interesting thing. Water, as we know, is incompressible. The body is made up mostly of water. The shock delivered to the water is instantly transferred to whatever inside the body there is that *does* compress... like organs. The compression is so fast and so violent that things tend to rip up and break and shred and ... well... you get the picture. :-)
Since i'm forever writing about guns, knives, and the people who love them, here's what I found:
Body Trauma: A Writer's Guide To Wounds And Injuries
Cause of Death: A Writer's Guide to Death, Murder and Forensic Medicine
The Crime Writer’s Reference Guide
And I have HowStuffWorks on my favorites bar, right alongside A Handbook Of Texas.
*snicker*
I can just imagine if I took those with me to a nice coffee house or something, for light reading...
Speaking of bad books, I really wish I could remember how I planned to end mine. I have all kinds of leading points that I know I planned to do *something* with, but now I don't recall what. I guess I gotta start over...but I know I had some really good ideas.
It stinks having such a lousy memory. It's fun when re-reading books I've read many times before, but not so good when re-writing my own.
Bullets hit bone, breaks into pieces, and the pieces start to tumble around in the body. It's the tumbling bits that usually kill, as they destroy so much vital tissue. http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/scientific_topics/wound_ballistics/How_a_high-speed.html
I love our homeschool group. We only meet two times a month. The leadership seems all business (but then, I'm not in leadership). I don't get involved in the chatty parts of it so I may be blind to a lot...which is probably best. That is also one of the reasons I teach Sunday School instead of going to a class myself...G'nad too. The good part is we don't get swept up into all the crap...the bad part is we aren't in the loop for prayer, cookouts, and the like. I do have some friends that try to keep me posted, but we aren't in the "in group". :-) I haven't had many really close friends. Three that I can think of and being in the military, they or we moved away.
Mrsnad
My name is Chief Warrant Officer 2 Bryan S I am the Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer for my unit. One of the Marines here in Iraq with me has received several of your knives and has distributed them out to my EOD technicians and our accompanying Security Marines and Corpsmen for our daily use on IED calls outside the wire.
I can not begin to express my gratitude to all of you enough. Your kindness and generosity is only overshadowed by the appreciation of my Marines to receive more weapons to take into the fight. Nothing says “I love you” to a Marine more than the gift of a fighting knife or tool. It’s tangible and it means a hell of a lot. Thanks.
One of the items, a Lagana tomahawk, has been used by my two team leaders and me several times for conducting quick digs on suspect items while we were working. We pass it off daily depending on which team has duty for the day. It has come in really handy more than once. I seldom leave my vehicle without it’s lanyard around my wrist. I can not go into the details of how we conduct our work, but trust me; it’s a good piece of gear.
We also received a couple of Camillus BKT Tactool knives that reminded me so much of the old WWII Corpsman’s bolos that I immediately ordered them issued to our Corpsmen. I also ordered that my Corpsmen be given the two Camillus Rescue Heat knives that we received as well. Our Corpsmen are among the folks who get to a vehicle full of Marines in distress the quickest. I think these knives will serve all of the Marines in our teams’ best when “Doc” shows up to help pry off a vehicle door or cut them out of a seat belt harness.
I am attaching a photo of my EOD team. Please know that your efforts are appreciated daily and that we will put your efforts to good use.
God Bless and Semper Fi.
Wow. I'm amazed and humbled once again.
PayPal will be coming soon, Rick. Once the move is behind me, I'll budget accordingly.
[snif] gotta love these guys.
EOD guys just aren't wired like everybody else. Normal people run away from explosives.
Winmag, you're the guy who knows what to send. Thank you :~)
See, I just knew Rose would know how to kill someone.
Thanks!
God bless them all.
And you too Rick, for all you do.
Good lookin' bunch of guys! And great testimony to what you do - thanks, as always, for posting!
oh I could go on all night...
unless it's a relatively small caliber rifle (5.56, .22) the bullet would likely pass thru the body... any bullet would be found outside the body...
a hollow point or soft point would leave small fragments of copper jacket and lead in the body...
if we're talking large caliber (.308, .30-06, 7MM) a hit in the upper chest/back, within 4" of center would be an instant kill in most cases... you've got the renal artery going down, aorta/caratoid going up... a hit on either of those would near instantaneous death... a lung hit would cause death within seconds, minutes at the most... traumatic spine hit would kill instantly, and even though it hits bone, a bullet over 120 gr would still almost always exit the body...
God bless 'em...
Semper Fi...
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