No I didn’t.Not a .45 anyway. My best friend who was an artillery sergeant(First Field Forces) and also did ops as a Phoenix program assassin did. Obviously I used a bit of hyperbole but he assured me a .45 slug will put a huge hole in someone. A .50 caliber will defiantly cut someone in half. Couple of years back at an airshow near where I live featuring a B-17 and a B-24 I bought a deactivated .50 caliber round. God Bless John Browning. “Ma Deuce’’ rules!
The classic low pressure 45 auto in fmj pretty much just punches a hole in tissue, looking at the wound, it looks pretty much like any pistol wound.
You're right, a .50 BMG probably could "cut someone in half," but that's the .50 BMG round, typically firing a 750gr bullet at about 2800fps at the muzzle. In a pistol, you're dealing with a much shorter barrel, a much smaller projectile, a much smaller cartridge case, and far lower velocities.
Yes, much more powerful than a .44Mag, but still nowhere near what a rifle would generate, let along a .50 BMG rifle, like a Barrett.
Mark