07-13-2011, 06:07 AM
LR1955 Wrote:Joe:
Oh yes, that 9mm service round may have a statistical MV of 1200 fps from an M-9 but my bet is that by the time it goes ten or fifteen feet is is well below that level. And even if it hits someone at that level, it will be below the same once it passes through clothing and skin.
LR1955
I can tell you from personal experience that clothing slows shrapnel down. It's not a bullet but the shrapnel I got hit with was the filler of an anti personnel mine. It consists of a steel rod cut into short pieces at an angle to create sharp points on both ends. It's about the size and weight of a bullet.
Even though it isn spinning, air resistance causes it to orient one or the other pointy end first over short distances. I had very few oblong holes in me.
When the docs gave me a jar of souvenirs from the surgery, I was surprised to see so much cloth in the jar with it.
They took strips of my outer uniform and my tee shirt into the wound with them. That's got to use up a lot of energy
Any of you guys who have been shot found this to be true too?