::To:Earnest From:Rich Subject:Kevlar vests -Turiyan is always right.
06-18-96  18:29
 EP> I've never heard of anything worse than severe bruising from a
 EP> non-penetrating bullet; but there are more than a few
 EP> instances of blows from fists and feet causing heart failure.
There have been cases of lacerations, contutions and other nastys of
the heart and lungs from blunt traume (Temporary cavitation).  I am
refering to the cases I have seen on medical databases.
Myth: Temporary cavitation causes no damage.
Fact: Temp. cavitaion in muscle causes little damage unless magnum or
rifle bullets are involved where laceration or maciation from fibers
pulled beyond their range of motion.
Bone is a tissue.  Heart is a tissue.  Lung is a tissue.  Liver is a
tissue, brain is a tissue.  Temporary cavitation in and even near
these tissues form a permanent cavity.
The military actually proved that temporary cavitation causes damage
by firing a rifle bullet into tissue medium and having the bullet pass
near but not too close to a cat bone.  The bone shattered.
I would like someone to do a test with a cows liver suspended in a
milk jug weighted down with a fishing weight and string and held
static with a line secured in the neck of the jug.  I might be
nessessary to keep the liver "flat" by using straws tootpicked to the
back of the liver.
Make two of these.
Fire through one with a FMJ, and on with a fast-expanding bullet.  I
am sure the results will be axiomatic.
Turiyan "The union-buster" Gold.
... The PENTIUM is .99% accurate in calculations.... _Intel_
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