Energy Dump - A Self-Defining Term

[mavracer]

You can't be serious

I admit to having a hard time but I think I can.
Thats the nightmare, I always have, I shoot and nothing happens the BG just stands there looking at me.Sorry told ya I have a hard time being serious.
oh ya,and you forgot to practice your "redneck reload"

 

[Odd Job]

Dr Courtney said:

The vast majority of handgun shooting victims are shot with sub-service calibers: 22's, .25's, and .32's.

Well, you would have to specify the jurisdiction and the time frame in which the numbers were collected. At the large trauma unit that I worked at in South Africa, the bullet cabinet was filled with mainly service calibres (9mm being a favourite). That was in 2002.

In addition, the majority of shooting victims are hit in locations that are unlikely to be rapidly lethal.

If you are talking rapidly lethal, then yes those are in the minority of cases because you have limited the shootings to CNS or major vessels. That will always be the minority, FMJ or JHP, better training or not.
If you are talking about high value targets according to body part, then 45% of a 542 victim sample in my jurisdiction sustained potentially high value hits based on external breaches in body parts alone. Those were live gunshot victims (or presumed alive by whoever brought them to hospital).
You can figure out for yourself whether that 45% would increase if the sample included victims deceased at the scene, in the same jurisdiction over the same time period.