Testing bullets on limbs?

[vicious_cb]

We know pistol velocity stretch cavities dont mean anything on most tissues, but they do when they exceed the capability of the mass struck to contain it.

Not a scientist but you know what I mean. A pistol stretch cavity doesn't mean much against a human torso but can grenade a rabbit. So what about human limbs?

No, pistol rounds dont blow peoples limbs off. Not even if its a .45 cal.

[MegademiC]

No, pistol rounds dont blow peoples limbs off. Not even if its a .45 cal.

I was told 10mm does this. The person was serious, too.

Bullets do weird stuff- usually less dramatic than expected. I saw someone shoot a rabbit with a 308 and it left pinholes.
It did die upon impact.

[Ron3]

I was told 10mm does this. The person was serious, too.

Bullets do weird stuff- usually less dramatic than expected. I saw someone shoot a rabbit with a 308 and it left pinholes.
It did die upon impact.

One of the weirdest results I ever got messing around with mud testing was with .308. Silver Bear .308 JSP 140 or 145 gr from a G3 clone.

I fired three rounds at about 25 yds into a small box filled with damp dirt. (not quite mud) The box was only about 16" x 12" x 5" thick. (might have been a box cat litter comes in) I expected a blast of dirt out of the top and spray out of the back. Nope! Nothing! And the bullets didn't even go through the box! I would have thought I'd missed if not for the three holes in the face of the box. When I dug I found small pieces of lead and jacket. The bullets didn't expand I don't think, they simply came apart as if they were made of ice. So weird. I would have expected solid bullets from a .22 rifle to have got through but here .308 did not.

[Ron3]

No, pistol rounds dont blow peoples limbs off. Not even if its a .45 cal.

Not off, but a hit to bones in the forearm (radius, ulna) may do enough damage to keep a hand from working at all, I'm guessing.

That's what I'd like to see research about. Does a hit to that area with a FMJ .380 do much less damage than a JHP 124 gr +p 9mm?

[rjacobs]

No, pistol rounds dont blow peoples limbs off. Not even if its a .45 cal.

I have a S&W 329PD that when shot with heavy hard cast feels like you blew your own hand off...

The perils of shooting a 44mag revolver that weighs what a G19 weighs...