Where does rifle velocity begin? Terminally, I mean. To the point where permanent crush-cavity of tissue actually touched by the projectile is not the only wounding mechanism?
Is there a "barrier", such as a 50-150fps or something range at which a rapid transition in wounding mechanism takes place, such as:
13-1400fps = Crush cavity only
1450+ = TC causing permanent meaningful injury as well
Does it "taper off", for example, a wound caused by a projectile at 2700fps doesn't look much worse than one caused by the same projectile at 1700fps (barring fragmentation or more robust expansion of course)? Or will a wound caused at 1700 fps be meaningfully less severe than one at 2,000 fps, and then 2200fps, and so on?
*All of this line of questioning assumes a non-fragmenting, robustly expanding bullet like Barnes or Gold Dot.
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