Absolutely penpusher!
Are you by any chance talking about my driver? the chaps an ex fauji, invalided out because of a similar injury.He's hard of hearing, lucky, hasnt lost all...
I guess enough and more real life stories exist, to remind us of the terrible damage firearms can inflict on soft skinned animals, contrary to the bullet proof-ed animals which only americans seem to shoot.
The 9 has been a failure for the yanks right from the beginning, when Beretta was chosen over the Glock because of commercial reasons and then the SEALS found the slides breaking on the M9's in actual operations!!
and inspite of all the tosh-spray and pray seems to be the prevalent attitude.Then they had a major problem with the gas chamber design of the M16, lots of fouling, weapon jamming-add a forward bolt assist
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-the actual problem was because of wrong powder usage!
Eugene Stoner built a great gun, with the specifc intention of using a faster burning UNCOATED powder, which the bureaucrats negated(in all their wisdom, by using the coated powder, leading to calcium carbonate formation and fouling and blockages/stoppages!)The brits seem to be very comfortable with their 9's, using it with murderous intent!
As for the gunwriters, they are but cousins to our media hoopla types, Quote poisoning from the lead bullet may lead to septic shock and death unquote, in the case of our late lamented politician...
As was rightly pointed out earlier, firing the same weapon with same and different loads at varying ranges , MAY give the operator an idea about bullet behaviour -including the 25 bouncing off a plastic jar!
Hard to comment what will be the effect EACH TIME, so we have to run with statistics and generalities.
The varying GSW's i see here, make me post often about the murderous efficiency of these kattas and give me a constant reinforcement about firearm ballistics-While I pray very hard for a Les Bauer FBI HRT model of a 45, I am perfectly comfortable with my ppk/s and will take on any attacker or situation-because i know what i and my weapon are capable of...
The day they declare the 50 BMG ineffectual , will be a sad day-those 12mm's US or Russian, can take the living daylights out of targets they are designed for-Maybe , there will be a new weapon in the US armoury soon- a 577/600 magazine fed full auto rifle?
We better start tooling up for laser pistols at this rate! or better still, declare a moratorium on war and go fishing...
Great reading your posts-call if you are this side of the world-my round.
Best
Axx