FWIW Dept., I don't subscribe to the theory myself. The various densities found in tissue complicate a thoroughly complicated environment when dealing with terminal ballistics. Yes, energy is transfered, but I cannot accept that the wave forms in and of themselves do all of this dastardly damage. I believe wave energy dissipates by the third power as a function of radius from origin. It is at best a precipitous decline, and at any point where a bullet is administering energy, the localized tranfer is a small portion of what is available. And as to what is available, there is this problem of "equal and opposite reaction" . Is not the energy at the buttplate equal to that at the muzzle? Yes, one is heavy and slow, the other light and fast, but still...speed does not, in and of itself, kill things. You may call one "apples" and the other "oranges" if it suits you.
It is, in any case something that will not be resolved in my lifetime. If perchance it is, and I'm full of hooey, so be it. Drinks will be on me at The Grizzly Bar. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
