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In reply to the discussion: More scaremongering about centerfire .22's... [View all]benEzra
(12,148 posts)24. Then you should tell all the physicists working on supercavitating projectiles, blades, and foils
that their entire field has been using their terminology wrong since the 1960s and needs to get it straight. Also be sure to tell the peer reviewed fluid dynamics journals that they are doing it wrong and need to revise all their articles ASAP.
But aside from all terminology quibbles, all bullets do form temporary low-pressure cavities in fluid media upon impact, but such cavities are not well correlated with lethality, just temporary incapacitation, and then mostly out of rifle-length barrels. .223 creates such cavities, but smaller ones than deer calibers do, and citing temporary cavity as a rationale for banning centerfire .22's is rather silly, IMO.
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You are approximately five times more likely to win the lottery than be murdered by a .223 cal rifle
the band leader
Jul 2015
#8
+1. Once again, verifiable truth is shown to be superior to mere weight of verbiage
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2015
#12