01-05-2013, 09:25 PM
Sorry Gordon....
the 45 degrees had to do with what Humes said as he stuck his pinkie in the hole... a bullet entering and then coursing downward (yaw) is not uncommon at all... I do not believe Humes was relating the shooting angle to 45-60 degrees but how the shallow wound felt to him... if he could feel the end of the wound, yet they did not bother to record the removal of a bullet of fragment from that spot... it was either removed earlier or really did fall out of JFK duing cardiac massage and was the pointed bullet Nurse Bell picks up.
As to how a bullet stops in the body... it is all based upon the speed of the bullet. There are rifles that will fire rounds at low-velocity such as .22 LR which leaves the muzzle at 1150fps and slows to 975 at 100 yards.
The bullet Audrey Bell picked up was a pointed nose, very small bullet which can easily explain what caused the back wound.
Finally, here is a FMJ chart on fragmentation at different speeds.... at less than 1500fps (more like 1000fps) we should see no fragmentation and a very shallow wound... (and please realize that the MC, at less than 2000fps should not, COULD NOT have created a trail of minute particles as seen in the xrays... a different type of bullet from the front would have left that trail...
DJ
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the 45 degrees had to do with what Humes said as he stuck his pinkie in the hole... a bullet entering and then coursing downward (yaw) is not uncommon at all... I do not believe Humes was relating the shooting angle to 45-60 degrees but how the shallow wound felt to him... if he could feel the end of the wound, yet they did not bother to record the removal of a bullet of fragment from that spot... it was either removed earlier or really did fall out of JFK duing cardiac massage and was the pointed bullet Nurse Bell picks up.
As to how a bullet stops in the body... it is all based upon the speed of the bullet. There are rifles that will fire rounds at low-velocity such as .22 LR which leaves the muzzle at 1150fps and slows to 975 at 100 yards.
The bullet Audrey Bell picked up was a pointed nose, very small bullet which can easily explain what caused the back wound.
Finally, here is a FMJ chart on fragmentation at different speeds.... at less than 1500fps (more like 1000fps) we should see no fragmentation and a very shallow wound... (and please realize that the MC, at less than 2000fps should not, COULD NOT have created a trail of minute particles as seen in the xrays... a different type of bullet from the front would have left that trail...
DJ
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