More on Ballistic Contradictions : Follow-Up Comments

By John Farnam

By John Farnam

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- “When you just ain’t got nobody Since you’ve gone and lost your head Rigor mortis has set in, Daddy Jack, you’re dead!” ~ From “Jack, You’re Dead,” Written by Walter Bishop. and Dick Miles. Most famous rendition was sung by Louis Jordan in 1946 (sound track video below).

Authoritative follow-up comments on my ballistic performance article, from colleagues who know what they’re talking about:

“I’m not worried about having a ‘less-than-perfect’ round in my social guns, because I think the same criteria is most important for selecting the brand/type of JHP, as for selecting caliber:

Shot placement!”

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“As you note, ‘deanimation,’ as a result of direct injury to the supply agent to the circulatory system, can certainly take many seconds. Forensic pathologists further opine that as long as the brain remains oxygenated, the actor is still capable of cognition, decision making, and action. Assuming zero blood pressure, one must expect that the brain will remain sufficiently oxygenated to allow calculated voluntary action for a minimum of fifteen seconds, an eon in the course of a …Read the Rest

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