A foot pound is the amount of energy required to lift a pound by one foot.
Your 2000 foot pound load has enough energy to move a ton upward by one foot.
Somebody is going to ask why the 200 pound deer didn't fly ten feet.
BECAUSE the 200 lb deer BODY did not TRAP all the E. --> simple grin
Jerry
It did if, the shooter was using one of Bullets that “comes from untogether” upon impact, that so many people seem to favor these days! memtb
