Originally Posted By: wapitirod
If you shoot an animal with a .475 cal handgun using a 400gr hardcast and the impact velocity is 1200fps your energy will be roughly 1300ftlb's. If this bullet blows straight through and exits at 1100fps then you have only transferred a little over 100ftlb's of energy.


Are you serious? Transfered 100-ft lbs? So according to this, a 100 fps translates to 100-ft-lbs? Where did this come from?

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