[MUD-Dev] Source data on Crossbow

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Original message: http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00175.php

On Fri Jul 18 01:04:17 1997 CUT clawrenc at cup.hp.com wrote:

> Shooting a body, and hitting and not penetrating the flak jacket
> (ie 100% transission of kinetic energy) will almost never kill,
> but is quite capable of stopping a body.  (Even leaning into the
> impact, a .45 can often throw the target to the ground (this is
> not TV folks))
 
Actually, it is TV.  The US Army studies of Thompson and LaGuardia
in the 1920s, using suspended corpses show a deflection of less than
2" from a .45.  The "Deadly Weapons" video documentary shows a
gentleman in a hard ceramic flak vest taking a 7.62mm round from an
H&K G-3 at 3 ft.  He does not move.

The recoil of the weapon equals the impact of the bullet,
energywise.  If it doesn't knock down the shooter, it won't knock
down the target.

Hope this is useful.

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