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hoppdoc
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STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??
07/04/06 05:21 AM

One of the real chewtoys hunters get into is the stopping power of their weapons.

I personally consider it the abiity to stop a attacking charge with a non-CNS shot. If the CNS can be hit routinely we would all be hunting with smallbores

Indeed with enough "STOPPING POWER" the animal should be "shocked" into ceasing the attack thereby sparing the hunter from physical injury.

Intuitively we know that a 458 bullet will have more stopping power than a 22 by virtue of its momentum and contact area.This still may not take into the account other effects of velocity.

Taylor had his "Knock Out" tables--
Is there something better??

One fellow,James Hall, has tried to quantitate this by formula definig a KINETIC PULSE THEORY
You may wish to read and draw your own conclusions--

http://www.xmission.com/~fractil/math/kp.html

Question-
Is your rifle a poorer or better stopper than you think??

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Edited by hoppdoc (07/04/06 05:26 AM)

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STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	hoppdoc	07/04/06 05:21 AM
Re: STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	jro45	07/05/06 06:34 AM
Re: STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	ALF	07/05/06 09:16 AM
Re: STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	hoppdoc	08/05/06 09:06 AM
Re: STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	SAFARIKID	07/05/06 01:14 PM
Re: STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	Will	11/04/06 06:24 PM
Re: STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	bulldog563	13/04/06 06:19 PM
Re: STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	luv2safari	07/04/06 12:55 PM
Re: STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	DONOTDELETE	07/04/06 12:21 PM
Re: STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	allenday	07/04/06 08:58 AM
Re: STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	JPK	07/04/06 10:10 AM
Re: STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	DarylS	07/04/06 06:52 AM
Re: STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	zimhunter	07/04/06 05:35 AM
Re: STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	hoppdoc	07/04/06 07:17 AM
Re: STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	hoppdoc	07/04/06 10:58 AM
Re: STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	zimhunter	07/04/06 12:25 PM
Re: STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	hoppdoc	07/04/06 08:29 PM
Re: STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	hoppdoc	08/04/06 10:48 PM
Re: STOPPING POWER-How to best measure it??	MRobinson	10/04/06 12:38 PM

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