animalpest wrote:Hydraulic shock is very real. Call it whatever you want to.
Necropsy enough animals from different calibres, different speeds and using different bullets and you will see for yourself.
Medium to large calibres with velocity that are below 2000fps at impact and you can eat up to the hole!
Try that with a high velocity round.
Hydraulic shock is real, just associating it with gunshot wounds has not been proven.
While high velocity round can cause more damage, its not to do with Hydraulic shock, as Hydraulic shock is the movement of fluid.
While lots of people without any medical knowledge or qualifications seem to claim its real, there is next to no medical evidence to support it, (although some from 80 years ago) and a lot of people have been shot by high velocity rounds and had very detailed autopsy's undertaken.
I think the best example of why it doesn't exist is the use of a lithotriptor.
As to nathan fosters claims, I looked at his claims and notice that he claims that a punch to the jaw can result in a knockout due to hydrostatic shock, this is well known to be incorrect, its about head rotation and bouncing the brain (simple terms). But he uses it as proof hydrostatic shock exists.
Its a classic case of the Dunning Kruger effect.
But happy to be shown to be wrong, so post some medical findings that show hydrostatic shock killed a person from a gunshot wound.