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The bullet travels at rifle like velocities and when it expands on impact that should create devastating hydrostatic pressures and a huge permanent cavity.
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Since when is 1300 fps considered a "rifle like velocity"? I guess if you are considering 12 ga shotguns, antique .45-70 loads, and .22 lr as being your determiners for what is considered rifle-like velocity. However, those velocities would be at the extreme low end for rifles. It would be just as accurate to refer to such velocities as "pistol like velocities" since 1300 fps in within the high end of pistol caliber pistols.
Since you mentioned "devastating hydrostatic pressures produced by these rounds, just how much energy is required to produce hydrostatic shock and at what pressure does it become devastating?
Given that folks survive and continue to function after being struck by larger high velocity calibers that should produce more hydrostatic shock than your handgun rounds, in other words, at levels well above what you called "devastating," can you really say the handgun rounds actually produce devastating hydrostatic pressure?