Comments on: Sadie has a question about drones — Do you feel lucky?

By: SADIE

SADIE — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:46:39 +0000

Less fuzzy – more furious.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:21:34 +0000

When they can blow up the Chinese embassy by mistake, don’t think other people are immune.

By: JKB

JKB — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:16:34 +0000

The fact that they bought hollow point only means that the ammunition is for domestic use against US citizens and other non-military targets. i believe it is still true that hollow point ammunition is banned in war by the Geneva convention.

Hollow points do expand on impact and mostly to create a larger wound channel and increase the likelihood of cutting a critical structure. On the other hand, the expansion also makes the rounds easily stoppable by body armor.

As an aside, the .223 round used in most AR variants is designed to tumble and break up creating a larger wound cavity but those features also make it less likely to over penetrate walls compared to standard handgun ammunition.

By: JohnC

JohnC — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:47:16 +0000

Note: In the video I linked above the actual test begins at the 2 minute mark.

By: JohnC

JohnC — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:44:21 +0000

Note on the bullet video -

Hollow point bullets expand and fragment in order to cause Hydrostatic Shock. This causes “remote wounding and incapacitating effects in living targets through a hydraulic effect in their liquid-filled tissues, in addition to local effects in tissue caused by direct impact. There is scientific evidence that hydrostatic shock can produce remote neural damage and produce incapacitation more quickly than blood loss effects. Human autopsy results have demonstrated brain hemorrhaging from fatal hits to the chest.”

By the way – That’s not just any hollow point round in the video. The center-post formation in the bullet identifies that round as a Hydra-Shok JHP (jacketed hollow point.) These are expensive personal defense rounds from Federal. The center post supposedly helps keep clothing from clogging-up the cavity and making the bullet perform more like a round-nosed bullet.

This will show you how Hydra-Shoks in .45 ACP perform. Don’t worry. No flesh involved in this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0515AxzA5c

IF you can find any Hydra-Shoks in stock right now, and that’s a big if, you’d be doing good to get them for $28 a box. That’s a dollar forty per trigger pull. I’m not certain the hollow-point rounds bought by the Government were Hydra-Shoks and not just regular hollow-points. Not that it would matter. If you were shot with either you’d be just as dead, obviously.