For those who totally discount FPE, tell us
what we can use to measure the killing effects of missiles.
No math equation will ever show what bullets do in tissue. Bullets kill by destroying tissue. Penetration, permanent crash cavity, temporary stretch cavity, max TC, TC length and width, neck length- all combine to offer a 3D representation of the wound channel.
The only way that correctly predicts that 3D wound channel is properly calibrated 10% ballistics gel. The FBI’s criteria matches near uniformly with mammals, whether 200lb bipedal or 600lb quadrupeds. The test consists of six events. Bare gel, heavy clothing, double wall board, 3/4” plywood, double 20ga sheet metal, auto glass. For nearly 30 years multiple projects have aimed to determine how to predict bullet performance in tissue. Every single time, regardless of who conducts the effort, the FBI’s protocol is the only one that shows correlation to live tissue.
Bare gel for light skinned animals, heavy denim for thick skinned animals, plywood for large bones in smaller 200’ish pound animals, auto glass for large heavy bones in truly large mammals.
There is no rigorous way of predicting the effects of a bullet wound. However, some basic physics can get us into the right ballpark.
Yes there is, see above. “Basic physics” will not, and can not tell you how deep, how wide, or what shape a bullet wound will be. Properly calibrated ballistics gel does.
