Penetration is not based on velocity. Smaller is not necessarily better. Woodchucks, metal plates and 55 gallon drums are not adequate test mediums for terminal ballistics. Claiming you saw it on TV is not documentation
Sir you seem to be a highly intelligent person so I would like to hear your views and explanations of the tests that P.O.Ackley conducted with the .220 Swift.
As we all know it was a .22 caliber projectile weighing 48 grains traveling at about 4,100 fps or even a little less than that being as factory quoted velocities over the years have often proved to be somewhat less when actually chronographed. At any rat the bullet was going very fast, far faster than the weapon tested against it which happened to be a 30-06 armor piercing round.
Now the Swift penetrated the armor and the 30-06 armor piercing round did not.
I would be very interested in hearing your explantion as to this phenomina as it seems to be at odds with your above quote. Am I missing something here. Please explain your views on this matter. Thank You vey much.
I would also recommend you read back issues of the Cleveland Plane dealer as to the death of the boy in question. I did not quote this in the past because in that particular shooting (one of many that I heard about or read about) I do not remember how fast the boy expired. I would image for those that are really interested even a police and autopsy report would be available. I do not have time to do the leg work for anyone but it is available for those who want it.
In the past I have seen woodchucks drop dead from a .22 rimfire and never even move except for a tail twich and I have seen the same size chuck run 50 yards and almost make it to its burrow when hit with a 30-06 in the exact same spot. So in all sincerity does anyone really blame me for getting upset when the accusation is made or inferred that a human when hit by a high power pellet gun would not or could not expire immedieately?
And as I said before I remember seeing a special on TV about this happening. True, the news media often gets things wrong and is not above exaggurating but to infer that they always lie is not fair to them either. One could always get the police report when seeing something on the news media but to say automatically that is must not be true because it might not fit in with ones philosphy is not to give both sides of the arguement a fair investigation.
I have seen deer when hit at a measured 200 yards at my friends farm with the .223 run about 25 yards and fall down just as dead as when hit with the 3006. The deer hit with the 3006 ran no farther and did not fall down any faster or die any sooner. If the deer was hit through the heart or lungs with either caliber it did not seem to make a wit of difference as to how far they ran or how quick they dropped. Now it seems to me that if the bigger caliber caused faster blood loss or more shock surely we would have been able to observe this.
Now I realize that my 40 years of experience in hunting counts for nothing because I did not have a video camera with me at the time and did not have 100 eye witnesses to sign a document to verify all this.
It also seems strange to me that I seem to be the only one that is constantly asked for documentation when others seem never to have the same question asked of them as long as they take the accepted traditional view of things. It almost reminds me of Galileo when he tried to prove the world was not flat. Since it was not according to the thinking of the times he was considered somewhat of a heretic.
