Terminal ballistics antique & modern
 

Not a slick, modern production but an interesting video of Colt Army through M16 projectiles:


http://youtu.be/8m1zZlzotMg



*I guess HN1 still doesn't have the video embedding option turned on, so youtube link only.

I wouldn't wanna be hit by any one of them!!

BPS

The force of some of those rounds is amazing,isn't it?

What's sad is the fact that during our Civil War, technology in firearms had advanced far beyond our technology in medicine and how to treat non life threatening wounds, especially those created by the big bore rifled muskets of that era. Many poor soldiers were needlessly mutilated by field doctors who didn't have a clue that flesh could regenerate given time and cleanliness. Not to mention the fact that our "Napoleonic" methods of warfare were appalling to say the least.

BPS

You would have thought we would have learned something from the Indians by civil war times. I can't imagine walking in a line towards the enemy waiting for them to fire...unbelieveable!!