lightsandsirens5
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So, the hypothetical bullet won't have enough energy to penetrate the skull a second time (to make the exit) the first time it hits the inside of the skull, but after several bounces (each of which will transfer energy away from the bullet into the surrounding tissue), it will be able to penetrate the skull?
Actually yes. Let's assume a medium velocity FMJ round. Passes through the skull and enters the brain, it then strikes the inside of the skull at a shallow angle and ricochets away, much like a stone striking the surface of the water at high speed and shallow angle, it skips. Now you have a projectile, still inside the brain bucket, on a completely different course as before. It still has plenty of energy to penetrate the skull if it strikes it at a more acute angle. Now is it is a JHP, in all probability the round has mushroomed so much going through the skull, it will remain inside unless fired at a very short range.
Not to knock you or anything, but can you prove the above is impossible? I am looking for a link, but I have heard stories of soldiers shot in the head who had rounds enter the skull, pass generally around the brain by ricocheting around the inside of the skull and re-emerging almost directly opposite the entrance. They survive generally neurologically intact. As soon as I can find a link, I'll post it.
Personally, I'd love to see a video of an expert marksman who can, with a pistol, put two bullets into the same hole of a person who is falling to the ground.
I can try to get one made. My dad, a former Navy SEAL, has put several rounds in a nickle sized group in moving targets inside kill houses during training. (I don't know how good he is any more. He has been retired for a while now)
But Machine Pistols exist that have cyclic rates of 2200 plus per minute. That is over 36 rounds per second. It is very possible.
Did he come out of the celing on wires too? Because outside of Hollywood this is probably impossible.
Lol. No. See above.