fastbolt
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At the risk of getting flames for interjecting another real world human human wound body of work, I've found this paper very interesting if a bit dated:
http://www.gunthorp.com/Terminal Ballistics as viewed in a morgue.htm
Terminal Ballistics as Viewed in a Morgue
I remember when that series of postings was making the rounds of the gun enthusiast forums, too. The more the anonymous poster posted the info, the more questions arose and it's credibility seemed on uncertain ground.
The language and terms were, to put it charitably, a bit colorful, melodramatic and oddly emphatic for someone with a scientific background, let alone someone who claims his "Ph.D. is from the University of Tennessee in Anthropology". Phrases like "Gloriously effective", "Mozambique drill is fabulous!!!", "ventilated our BG (sniff)", etc.
He stated at one point, "my job is WORKING on skeletal remains or decomposed bodies, but I often OBSERVE autopsies of the newly-dead."
The anonymous author states he doesn't perform autopsies, but claims to observe them (when he wasn't working on mass graves in Bosnia).
Then, there's this little gem ... "I see an average of 8.2 autopsies per day/365 days per year ...". The fellow must not take any time off, and who knew where he found the time to post material in 20+ pages.
The material also contains a lot of name-dropping, slips in a lot of the familiar ballistic beliefs of many firearms enthusiasts, deftly including a respectable number of homilies popular among caliber and ballistic performance aficionados.
The anonymous author remained anonymous, despite people trying to figure out where he worked and his identity. He basically signed off and disappeared, last I read.
Is it the actual experiences of a real person, or a work of imaginative fiction crafted to lure gun and caliber enthusiasts into following the postings? Who knows? Let's just say that the trained cop in me was back then, and remains, more than a little skeptical.
Personally, I put it up there with the mythical Strasbourg Goat Tests, which is to gun enthusiasts what MJ12 and the Alien Autopsy is to UFO believers.