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Sarge · June 10, 2005, 06:05 AM

These threads kill me. Talk to your local ME. Autopsies will make it real clear, real fast, that it is often difficult to tell the difference between a bullet wound and a puncture wound- because the mechanism of injury is the same. Absent a recovered bullet, the vast majority of these folks will refuse to speculate whether a handgun GSW was a .32 or .45; whether it was ball, or hollow-point.

Handgun terminal effect is a result of knocking holes through things that we need to to keep intact, in order to stay conscious, upright, alive and relatively content with that condition. Where you locate that hole is problem number one; making sure that it gets through the things that need peforated, is problem number two.

If our bullet expands some while accomplishing this, all well and good- but a coroner (who does this stuff for a living) will probably never be able to tell the difference.

June 10, 2005, 06:05 AM	#42
Sarge Senior Member Join Date: May 12, 2002 Location: MO Posts: 5,459	These threads kill me. Talk to your local ME. Autopsies will make it real clear, real fast, that it is often difficult to tell the difference between a bullet wound and a puncture wound- because the mechanism of injury is the same. Absent a recovered bullet, the vast majority of these folks will refuse to speculate whether a handgun GSW was a .32 or .45; whether it was ball, or hollow-point. Handgun terminal effect is a result of knocking holes through things that we need to to keep intact, in order to stay conscious, upright, alive and relatively content with that condition. Where you locate that hole is problem number one; making sure that it gets through the things that need peforated, is problem number two. If our bullet expands some while accomplishing this, all well and good- but a coroner (who does this stuff for a living) will probably never be able to tell the difference. __________________ People were smarter before the Internet, or imbeciles were harder to notice.