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  • I don’t see the point you’re trying to make here. You sound like you’re trying to disprove my point that more velocity won’t necessarily equate to overpenetration and “penciling through” with minimal damage but you all you did is explain that overpenetration means unused kinetic energy. Which is usually true depending on the situation but doesn’t disprove what I said.



  • That is simply not true. All you have to do is design your projectile in shape, construction and materials so the kinetic energy gets properly used to cause damage to the target.

    A tiny 40 grain .204 Ruger bullet with the insane muzzle velocity of 4100 fps will absolutely explode a watermelon if you use a rapidly expanding projectile such as a ballistic tipped varmint round.

    As a matter of fact, the problem you can recounted with projectiles that go too fast is that they will over expand and under penetrate depending on the nature of the target. It isn’t a simple problem, the are many different types of dynamics that you can get depending on the nature of the projectile, velocity and target.