Sometimes law enforcement officers have some interesting takes on ballistics.
I used to go in weekly for allergy shots to an allergy clinic. The receptionist was married with a 12 year old son. The dad and kid were deer hunting and puled the standard stupid fence trick which ended up with dad taking a bullet through the right cheek of the butt, fortunately not striking any bone, but at 10 feet still a gruesome wound. The receptionist was telling me this story and that the investigating officer told her he was lucky it was so close because the bullet hadn't had a chance to get to its full velocity yet.
Apparently he felt the dad would have been more severely injured had he been 200 yards away when that bullet had a chance to get a full head of steam. And they gave him a badge and a gun.
