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Does "anyone" ever take Sectional Density into consideration!!
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<blockquote data-quote="turkn8r1" data-source="post: 1540025" data-attributes="member: 52709"><p>Someone way smarter than I is going to have to explain how exactly that bullet causes CNS disruption. I fully understand that CNS disruption is what causes death. I also fully understand that knock down power is a loose term used to describe CNS disruption. In other words knocking something down has nothing to do with killing it. I agree that the projectile causes the disruption. What I would like to know is how exactly a projectile is made to cause CNS disruption. Is it some mythical occurrence that has nothing to do with energy transfer and bullet design. Physics says that a projectile in flight has potential energy. If some of that energy is not expended on the target which affects the bullet changing shape how does the projectile cause CNS disruption. Why then is the entire industry recommending minimum foot pounds of energy in order for a given projectile to be adequate to dispatch a game animal. Case in point. Shot a living thing wearing a bullet proof vest at close range with a large projectile traveling at a high rate of speed. Massive potential energy. Projectile does not penetrate said vest yet the projectile transfers all it's energy at point of impact. If enough energy is transferred into the thing wearing the vest it will die from CNS disruption caused by energy transfer. The projectile however never entered the living creature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="turkn8r1, post: 1540025, member: 52709"] Someone way smarter than I is going to have to explain how exactly that bullet causes CNS disruption. I fully understand that CNS disruption is what causes death. I also fully understand that knock down power is a loose term used to describe CNS disruption. In other words knocking something down has nothing to do with killing it. I agree that the projectile causes the disruption. What I would like to know is how exactly a projectile is made to cause CNS disruption. Is it some mythical occurrence that has nothing to do with energy transfer and bullet design. Physics says that a projectile in flight has potential energy. If some of that energy is not expended on the target which affects the bullet changing shape how does the projectile cause CNS disruption. Why then is the entire industry recommending minimum foot pounds of energy in order for a given projectile to be adequate to dispatch a game animal. Case in point. Shot a living thing wearing a bullet proof vest at close range with a large projectile traveling at a high rate of speed. Massive potential energy. Projectile does not penetrate said vest yet the projectile transfers all it's energy at point of impact. If enough energy is transferred into the thing wearing the vest it will die from CNS disruption caused by energy transfer. The projectile however never entered the living creature. [/QUOTE]
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