[MUD-Dev] Source data on Crossbow

[Rudy Neeser]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 daggers at iquest.net wrote:
> On Fri Jul 18 01:04:17 1997 CUT clawrenc at cup.hp.com wrote:
 
> The US Army studies of Thompson and LaGuardia in the 1920s, using
> suspended corpses show a deflection of less than 2" from a .45.

Um ... Suspended corpses really aren't standing people. They have a
much more even weight distribution than a standing person
necessarily has.

> 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.

There are complications. The shooter can be (and, I suppose,
probably often is) shooting from a well balanced and stable
position, while the person being shot at is usually rather
unbalanced, especially if he / she's moving around (since human
movements like walking is a controlled unbalancing of your body).

So if it doesn't knock down the shooter, something could still knock
down the shootee.

These are just ideas to ponder.

Rudy


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