[bikepacker67]

Technically, the “hitting power” of a bullet is determined by the bullet weight and velocity, and is measured in joules.

Ehhh..... what happened to Foot-Pounds?

[yarddog]

Foot pounds is jost another way of saying how much energy the bullet carries. Actually joules is fairly close even if the numbers don't mean the same.

In other words my Lapua cartridges are rated at something like 2800 joules which would be roughly 2400 foot pounds.

[Fido969]

Technically, the “hitting power” of a bullet is determined by the bullet weight and velocity, and is measured in joules.

Ehhh..... what happened to Foot-Pounds?

New tactic - you want to stop the enemy fast - hit him in the joules.

[Ragnorak]

It's that darn metric system again.

Joule (energy or work) = applied force of one Newton moving one meter

Newtons (force) = force required to accelerate 1 kilogram one meter

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As far as I'm concerned when you need to know what it takes to put a six foot man six feet under, foot-pounds just seems to make a lot more sense.