DWARREN123
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Too many airweight revolvers for the big stuff. Can you imagine holding on to an airweight snubbie firing a hunting round!
Good, so far...Kinetic energy is a scientifically defined and measurable quantity...
Strangely enough, none of my physics courses defined KE as such....that measures the potential of a projectile to cause damage.
Yep. My carry round for my Taurus 651 Ti snubby (17oz) is Winchester's 180gr Nos Partition Gold HP. Shoots to POA at 7 yards (125gr & 158gr mags & spls did not...POI was 7-12" off POA). It travels at 1000ft/sec 10' from the muzzle of my snubby, losing only 100ft/sec to Winchester's 8" bbl.Can you imagine holding on to an airweight snubbie firing a hunting round!
=RyanM said:...there are ways of doing work on tissue that don't result in damage.
Kinetic energy measures the POTENTIAL of a projectile to do work or to damage tissue. For various reasons, the work or tissue damage ACTUALLY done is always less than the potential.JohnKSa said:...there are ways to dissipate energy without doing tissue damage.
"Energy transfer" is mainly expressed as temporary cavity size, since that's the only factor which correlates well with energy.
There's also apparently some evidence, according to Michael Courtney, that the blunt trauma caused by the temporary cavity will cause a compressive pressure wave with enough force to cause damage to the central nervous system, even if the temporary cavity itself does not intersect with any structures of the CNS.
if I can reduce hearing damage defending against a two or four legged threat, then why not