Yeah, a .45 size bullet is pretty big. Heck, if I were hit with one, I
would fall down. :)
Blake
At 12:16 PM 2/10/98 -0600, Dan Ray wrote:
>I don't know if you've ever fired a Govt. Colt .45, but the bullet is almost
>slow enough to see, and at half an inch around. If hit with one, at least in
>the torso or head it certainly would knock you down because the bullet is
>fat enough to stop in you without going through! I'm no engineer, but if you
>did the math of 1/3 oz of lead going about 550 or so fps coming to an aprupt
>stop inside you....
>The recoil is absorbed somewhat by the action of the gun.
>Dan
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
>To: John J. Peloquin <peloquin@mamba.bio.uci.edu>
>Cc: Nory <Nory@webtv.net>; Richard D. Arnold <richard.arnold@juno.com>;
>mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>; spridgets@autox.team.net
><spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Date: Tuesday, February 10, 1998 10:38 AM
>Subject: Re: NO LBC -- WAY OFF TOPIC
>
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>>John J. Peloquin wrote:
>>> Depends on the weapon. During the early years of the US colonization of
>>> the Philipines, there was a problem with the side arms issued to US
>>> military not being powerful enough to knock down machete wielding
>>> guerrillas before the assailant could hack the soldiers to bits. The .45
>>> was developed to provide knock-down capability.
>>
>> Please note that "knock-down power" is a product of television
>>only, not of physics.
>>
>> In order for a bullet to be travelling fast enough to knock
>>someone down, it would have to be accelerated to this speed
>>using the firearm held in your hand, and would therefore
>>have to knock you down as well (or require you at least
>>to be SERIOUSLY well braced).
>>
>> This simply doesn't happen, as even the most heavily
>>recoiling small arms far from knock you across the room.
>>
>>--
>>Trevor Boicey
>>Ottawa, Canada
>>tboicey@brit.ca
>>http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
>>
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