Bullet energy transfer

[ratcatcher55]

I understand why he did it that way and I'm not knocking him. If you shoot yourself enough without padding underneath the effects are going to start to add up.

From what I hear he was a decent guy and put on one heck of a match. Just wish I was old enough to have gone to some of them.

I heard the matches were something else.

I think John Farnam stiill shoots ballistic material during some of his courses.

[twyacht]

The police even had a press conference telling folks not to shoot their firearms in the air New Year's Eve....

Well we got some real winners here.  Video at link.

http://mobile.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/MI140149/

MIAMI (AP) -- The city of Miami is helping an Italian family whose 6-year-old son was shot by a stray bullet while celebrating New Year's Eve there.

Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado says the boy, Andrea Fregonese, remained hospitalized Sunday in serious but stable condition.

Fregonese was shot in the chest hours after authorities urged Miami residents to stop firing guns into the air to celebrate New Year's Eve.

Regalado says toys will be brought to the boy Monday and his family has been offered a furnished apartment near the hospital, meals from two restaurants and free trips around the city from a cab company.

The mayor said: "I hope the message goes out and people throughout the world see that we care and that we're sorry."

(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

[TAB]

shoting a bullet strait up is completly safe.(don't do it)  its when you shoot it at a angle that things become dangerous.

strait up the bullet can only come down at its termal velocity.  at a angle, it still has part of the velocty from the actual shot.

[bulldog75]

One of the reasons I posted this was the part about Trp. Coates. He shot a guy with a .357 at point blank range 4 times and the guy lived to tell his side of the story. Trp. Coats was shot with a .22 at about 20 ft. When I first watched to video it made me sick. The criminal was obese. 5'4" 300+ . When he was shot you would see his body fat jiggle like a sledge hammer hitting jello in a gunny sack.  South Carolina went to the .40 cal. and they stated that they needed a better gun.

[tombogan03884]

 Don't need a "better gun" need skinnier criminals.

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[1911 Junkie]

Well, now I know why I'm fat.

I'm too cheap to buy body armor. 

[twyacht]

Since LEO's can't carry a T/C 375 H+H for duty, these stories will continue. Sadly, regardless of caliber the human body is hard to stop. Let alone drugs, alcohol, adrenaline...

Nice disclaimer TAB...