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LOL. You pejoratively tell a user that they are wrong - energy means nothing, nada, zilch, and only velocity matters. Now you’re butthurt when called out and want to explain that you knew all along that energy mattered and I’m muddying waters. I should be less surprised by internet interactions.
For a single bullet geometry & material as well as a single impact object geometry and material, you could back out velocity as a metric if that’s what you wanted to do. In today’s age, anyone can quickly figure out remaining energy just as quick as remaining velocity, so I’m not sure why you’d pick velocity as a metric in that circumstance. However, mfg’s don’t list “impact velocity” on a bullet-by-bullet basis nor do they characterize impact material geometry and material. They broadly characterize entire lines. This is part of the reason you hear folks say such-and-such bullet hit a ____ animal above states impact velocity and didn’t perform.
Impact velocity is 100% a marketing term. Impact velocity is a way that manufacturers package relatively complex science and SELL it to consumers….our bullet has a lower number so it’s more better. Marketing departments are typically …..”generous” in how they characterize their own products.
Jesus Christ dude. There is an entire publicly available library about medically validated, peer reviewed, empirical studies and evidence over the last 60 years on wounding and terminal ballistics. It has been discussed multiple times on this thread alone. Ft-lbs of energy is not a wounding mechanism, it does not and can not tell you how deep a bullet will penetrate, nor how wide a wound it will leave, nor the overall shape of that wound. Velocity isn’t a marketing thing- it’s literally how bullets are designed to upset. For the subject of this thread- all TMK’s of every caliber and weight will upset at 1,750-1,800fps yet they have VERY different energy numbers at those velocities.
