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Read it. Written by Dr. Roberts, a well known ballistician (I guess that's what you call them??) and surgeon. Look at all of his stickies at M4C and you will learn quite a bit.
Not that it matters because I think his stuff is good, but IIRC he is a dentist. (guess he could be an oral surgeon.)
No, it does not matter, and, yes, Dr. Gary K. Roberts is a maxillofacial surgeon, Lt. Nary Commander, and the one who puts soldier's faces back together after being shot up. Doc Roberts is also the Director of the Letterman Army Institute of Research (LAIR), taking over that posiition from Col. Dr. Martin Fackler, the "father" of modern terminal ballistics and founder of the International Would Ballistics Association.
Dr. Roberts--not that it matters, again--was a patrol officer for many years, and, not that it matters, he and FBI Supervisory Special Agent, Buford Boone, of the Ballistic Research Facitility of the Firearms Training Unit of the FBI Academy in Quantico are the world's two leading authorities on terminal ballistics. Doc Roberts is absolutely brilliant and has full understanding--beyond, perhaps, anyone else--what happens "on the street." All this is just for starters.
As g00n24 said, Go here:
http://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?t=19887
Also, go here:
http://www.m4carbine.net/forumdisplay.php?f=91
and spend some time in the first 25 sticky threads by Doc Roberts. A veritable gold mine of information.
Just a reminder: bullet performance and shot placement are independent--neither affects the other. One is technology; the other is training related. They are, both, part of incapacitation, but they are independent
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