MCgunner
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Hear me out. Yes high powered rifles will down someone if the impact of the bullet is about chest, but you have to ask, after the bullet penetrates the skin, and layers of muscle, what else does it hit? There might be some places on the chest that a bullet can pass through totally, and be totally survivable. So, you must have many many "plates" of registration for which the damage is counted on the body of the character, each representing a possible trajectory within the body, leading to missing or hitting organs and such, causing blood loss etc.
You don't hunt, do ya? Sounds like a Facklerite approach. Dude, when a high powered rifle with a good bullet hits a torso, the pressure wave destruction must be seen to be appreciated. That 7 mag I mentioned, I cut that deer open and there was simply NO SIGN OF A LUNG in that deer! The lungs were, well, vaporized is the best word I can think of, total destruction, not just the part the bullet passed through. We ain't talkin' .32 ACP here. The heart was still in tact, but hard to recognize and the bullet passed six inches above the heart. The off side shoulder was hangin' by a few tendons and skin. The on side shoulder was completely blood shot. It was as if 5 lbs of HE had gone off in that deer's chest. This is typical of a rifle producing 3300 fpe shooting a rapidly expanding game king bullet. This deer was hit at 50 yards. It was dead literally before it hit the ground and there was no CNS hit, was a shoulder shot. No, ANY HIT ANYWHERE center mass and you are dead before you can even feel the pain is my hypothesis from hunting with this cannon. My other rifles are devastating to lesser degrees, but the pressure wave destruction can happen well away from the path of the bullet in .257 Roberts or .308 Winchester, two other calibers I have extensive hunting experience with. These calibers don't produce the levels of energy the big 7 does, but they're 2200 fpe and 2600 fpe respectively which is way over and above any handgun. At those levels, tissue well away from the path of the bullet can be permanently damaged if not totally destroyed. I've personally seen it many, many times. I can count the number of deer I had to blood trail over 40 years of deer hunting on two fingers.