Originally Posted by JohnnyLoco
Originally Posted by denton
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.


But why doesn’t it, I hit a 145lb deer with a 450 Marlin load that went in the chest and lodged in her ass, she simply fell down. It didn’t lift her at all?

Sounds like a useless figure for hunting, maybe I will ask Mr. Owl

Because kinetic energy is not conserved when the bullet hits the animal, and it is not a perfectly elastic collision.