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The Basics, Starting Out
My thoughts on solid copper bullets and in comparison to other bullet types.
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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 2425127" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>One thing I don't see discussed enough is the literal explosion of organs and blood vessels by that shockwave. A term I refer to as "hyperstatic shock" because "hydraulic shock" doesn't really address it completely.</p><p></p><p>I've opened up thousands of hogs and game animals it with a good expanding bullet at 300yds or less where impact energy is very high for most center fire rounds used today and found nothing left intact at all inside the chest cavity with a consistency of lumpy gelatin.</p><p></p><p>I've even seen livers ruptured which are of course not even in the chest cavity from this massive overpressure which is of course followed by an instant vacuum in the case of a round passing through completely.</p><p></p><p>The fluids in those organs and vessels that are not struck by the projectile of pieces of same are literally exploding because of that fluid being forceded through them by the shockwave.</p><p></p><p>You do not see this at all, at least I haven't with low velocity impacts bet hat from the older and slower big bores like the 444 and 45/70 or even the big African Magnums that dominated earlier in the last century and century before. Those rounds can impart massive amounts of energy on the target at the ranges they are typically shot but lack the velocity to create the same sort of wave action.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 2425127, member: 30902"] One thing I don't see discussed enough is the literal explosion of organs and blood vessels by that shockwave. A term I refer to as "hyperstatic shock" because "hydraulic shock" doesn't really address it completely. I've opened up thousands of hogs and game animals it with a good expanding bullet at 300yds or less where impact energy is very high for most center fire rounds used today and found nothing left intact at all inside the chest cavity with a consistency of lumpy gelatin. I've even seen livers ruptured which are of course not even in the chest cavity from this massive overpressure which is of course followed by an instant vacuum in the case of a round passing through completely. The fluids in those organs and vessels that are not struck by the projectile of pieces of same are literally exploding because of that fluid being forceded through them by the shockwave. You do not see this at all, at least I haven't with low velocity impacts bet hat from the older and slower big bores like the 444 and 45/70 or even the big African Magnums that dominated earlier in the last century and century before. Those rounds can impart massive amounts of energy on the target at the ranges they are typically shot but lack the velocity to create the same sort of wave action. [/QUOTE]
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