Are these ballistics for each firearm caliber correct?
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Those are not what I would call ballistics. Those are entry verses exits holes, and they are at best only correct for entry holes in paper.
The fact is different designs of bullets make vastly different exit holes in different material. Besides the design of the round the velocity and distance to target also make a big difference.
When you start talking flesh the variance in what one bullet will do verses another is huge, and whether the impact of the bullet is just soft flesh verses harder muscle and/or bone also makes a huge difference.
Hollow point and core lokt bullets make a bigger exit hole in general. Ballistic tip bullets will blow the hell of the insides of living beings and hardly make an exit hole under the right circumstances. Hard nosed rounds like the military uses, and are currently the most available can zip through flesh causing only minimal damage to surrounding tissue. They are a shitty alternative for self defense due to the fact that they don't do more damage. It seems like finding anything else on the store shelves these days is a lot harder than it used to be.
Yea, terminal ballistics is a study in and of itself, as well as ballistic coefficients.
You sound like a man that likes the smell of gunpowder.
I've had a gun in my hand since I was about seven years old, so about sixty years of hunting and shooting.
I'm not that far behind you.
I feel sorry for the kids today, in this anti gun culture.
I try to corrupt as many that come my way.
Oh thanks for the information and I agree, they know that if the American people have adequate protection to defend then their ideals of having criminals to attack won't go as they have planned.
That would depend on whether I had a vest and how far away the shot was coming from. lol
But actually I would prefer neither.