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To: Mr Rogers

From your own article.

“The potential force transmitted from a bat to the tibia at the time of collision is 8,000 lb, three times that of the bullet 626 lb.”

8000/626=3 (hmmmmm?)

Think of a bat as about a 20,000 grain bullet traveling close to 300 fps. 1/2 mass x velocity squared.
NO pistol bullet comes remotely close to a Louisville slugger signature edition.

Anyone expecting a 45 or any pistol bullet to “knock down” anyone is in for a sad wake up call. Pain, fear, surprise and CNS damage may cause someone to go down immediately. But “knockdown” as in raw knockdown power is pure fiction. Its pure Hollywood.


66 posted on 09/07/2012 10:49:11 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DesertRhino

I agree that no bullet knocks a man down by energy, any more than it does a deer. A deer goes down based on what part the bullet hits.


76 posted on 09/08/2012 3:55:13 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Liberalism: "Ex faslo quodlibet" - from falseness, anything follows)
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