Actually hydostatic shock
isn't bunk, and it
does happen at handgun level energy levels. I'm currently in training for becoming an EMT, I've got several instructors and the topic of hydrostatic shock came up in one of out classes. I tend to believe them in this case because one was in the militry for many years and the other worked law enforcement, many years of out of Reno.
First of all the way your describing hydrostatic shock is miseading:
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Originally Posted by ziadel
the theory that when a bullet enters a living creature it creates a shock wave within the creatures body, which is supposed to be what causes quick kills
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Think of it like this: get yourself a bowl of water, now take a marble or really anything of the sort and drop it in the middle of the bowl. You'll see ripples form in the water. Now that is the basic idea behind two things: 1) Blood Pressure (which is a measure of the pressure of the wave of blood that the heart causes when it beats) and 2) Hydrostatic shock. If you were to drop a larger object in the bowl you'd obviously get larger waves.
Like I said, that's how I understand it and I'm certainly not a doctor so I may be wrong.
I do agree with you about the fact that hydrostatic shock alone does not make for a quick kill. What hydrostatic shock does do is increase stopping power by causing more pain, or so I would imagine. It may be attributed to quicker kills because of the fact that I'm sure it causes more issue damage with possible internal bleeding.