I have never heard of just a muzzle blast killing anything, I call BS on that, the only thing that will happen is youd get burned.
Wound channel is the only thing that kills, I do tend to believe in static shock, I think thismight have something to do the deerfalling or running. Some run and some fall and it aint got nothing to do with energy. I have dropped deer with a 22 mag double lung and have seen them run with a 300 mag, and vice versa.
Bullets knifes and arrows all kill by blood loss, however bullets tend to have hydro shock which seems to drop some in there tracks, but even then I have heard off arrows dropping deer in there tracks from a simple double lung, I dropped one from an arrow to the lungs one time but it got itself together and got up and went a few yards before falling again. Arrows offer no energy to speak of.
My friend got shot in the groin just to the side of his stuff, with a .25 auto and it put him down immediate, even though it did really nothing to him, they even left the bullet in there which worked its way out months later. He said it felt like a punch and his legs just gave out on him.


And I dont want to hearhow 22 mags are illegal, I know that and dont recomend using one either. I was young once........once.