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To: MNDude

My observations are:

1) Head shots tend to have kinetic energy that causes the body to fall at an angle and this is especially true in a rifle shot. The energy transfer causes the head to whip to the side and this creates a direction of fall. It is not the flip them over or blow them back 5 feet as hollyweird would have you believe. However, there is generally some sideways motion.

2) This video is from a far distance and only one angle. Other angles would need to be reviewed before anything more than a guess based on personal experience can be made.

3) This body fall does not display the expected behavior of a head shot. As others have stated, the fall is slow and I did not see enough lateral head movement to indicate a head shot.

So absent any additional information / footage, I would concur with either feinting or medical condition.

Full disclosure - I am not a ballistics or forensic expert.


9 posted on 12/02/2018 10:35:05 PM PST by taxcontrol
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To: taxcontrol

He feinted a faint?


12 posted on 12/02/2018 11:19:42 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: taxcontrol
Just for information purposes:

It's become customary, in CQB, to use a suppressed .22 HP, for head shots.
Range is seldom an issue.
No noise, so bystanders aren't spooked and start becoming more difficult targets.
A .22 HP has enough inertia to punch a hole in and then rattle around inside the skull vault, without as much chance of continuing out the back.
It's a quick drop, since living brain tissue is about the consistency of Camembert cheese and the bullet is about a .5 inch wide after penetration...

Just saying.

15 posted on 12/03/2018 12:12:40 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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