I was a member of the International Wound Ballistics Association, so I'm not talking off the top of my head. For bullets recovered from living targets, what I said was correct. I did say the caveat "if it is not deformed" (as by collision with a hard object). When my grandfather and father went hunting, they would often collect intact (though deformed) bullets from the game they took. The "power" of a cartridge-gun combination is mostly an imprecise popular term. It has more to do with total momentum of the round being fired than with velocity.
Yeah, earlier today I saw a 3D recreation of where the shots should have hit, and most would have hit the bleachers or the lift, but they think there might have been one or two that hit dirt. So in that case you're right they should have found those by now and they should have rifling pattern intact.
It's about speed not power. Catching any rifle round in inspectable condition is very rare. Those little .223s splatter on any sort of metal they hit.
I was a member of the International Wound Ballistics Association, so I'm not talking off the top of my head. For bullets recovered from living targets, what I said was correct. I did say the caveat "if it is not deformed" (as by collision with a hard object). When my grandfather and father went hunting, they would often collect intact (though deformed) bullets from the game they took. The "power" of a cartridge-gun combination is mostly an imprecise popular term. It has more to do with total momentum of the round being fired than with velocity.
Yeah, earlier today I saw a 3D recreation of where the shots should have hit, and most would have hit the bleachers or the lift, but they think there might have been one or two that hit dirt. So in that case you're right they should have found those by now and they should have rifling pattern intact.