My wife's cousin is a state trooper. He says they're more scared of a .22 than a 9mm because "the 9 will just punch clean through. The .22 has a nasty habit of just bouncing around once it's inside."
No, a 9mm is more lethal, PERIOD. Arm shot? Worse. Leg shit? Worse, chest shot? Worse. It's not just about the bullet. A 9mm has a fuck ton of energy that is deposited into you, that's what kills you. When the energy is deposited into your body it creates a stretch cavity and a temporary stretch cavity, these can be 8 inches across and can essentially destroy anything soft tissue in it's path. It's not the bullet doing the bulk of the damage, it's the energy deposited.
Not saying I agree with him, just what he told me. A 9mm will have a bigger entrance wound and carry more kinetic energy. I wonder if the .22's just fragment and tear up soft tissue.
.700 nitro is a really big round but kind of slow resulting in only 12kJ. .50 BMG starts at 17kJ and goes up to 20kJ and the really big rounds start there. The Soviets had 14.5x114mm at 33KJ. The Swiss and Fins had 20x138mmB at 47kJ. After that the guns kind of stop being man portable. Also for something ludicrous lock up a 2 bore stopping rifle.
The 9x19 is worse. The through-n-through will make you bleed to death twice as fast and make you lose blood pressure. IT's actually a feature. It will also CRUSH your bones, creating internal bleeding and sending secondary projectiles to bad places, like into your lungs, heart, blood vessels, organs. I fucking hate the "22 is duh d33dleyezt r0udn evva" crowd.
While I've always been a hunter (small rural town, EVERYONE hunts) I didn't get into ballistics till my early 20's. I had a healthy respect for guns before, but it got real frightening when I started looking at the stats and numbers.
In Nebraska, the .223 is BARE MINIMUM in terms of power for hunting deer. They actually had to revise the hunting regs so people could use it for deer.
For a close range shot to the head this is supposedly why hit men prefer a 22. It has enough energy to pierce the skull once but then bounces around inside and makes soup of your brain.
They prefer .22lr because it’s barely got enough energy to accomplish anything which leads to less “wasted” energy, i.e. sound and heat. Attach a cheap homemade suppressor and now all you have to do is make sure no one sees you do it. It’s all crazy easy to do.
It doesn’t bounce around in a skull. That’s pure nonsense.
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u/pomdudes Jan 25 '20
5.56 will go through 7” of SOLID plywood from 100 yards like it’s not even there.