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Originally Posted by 209x50
Take a 1 pound bag of sand and launch it at 60 feet per second and a 490 grain arrow at 225 foot per second. They both have 55 foot pounds energy. Which one will kill you? The bag is more efficient at transferring energy, does it all on the surface of your body but is non lethal. The arrow is far less efficient at transferring energy and zips through you with energy to spare. What killed you, the energy or the work the projectile did with the energy?
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There is a reason that police's bean bag guns are called less lethal and they are trained to not shoot for the chest. Because they have killed people with not puncturing any skin. The heart can stop from the instant shock. No broken bones or frangments in the body at all... They are lethal weapons just by shocking you.
the reason a cop doesnt die when taking a hit to his bullet proof vest is the vest spreads the pressures out so much that it only bruises the area. Low pressure over a large area......
Large pressure over a small area is why bean bag guns kill.