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jl85 from originally East Tennessee now Southern California is reading everything I can January 16, 2012 - 8:18pm

Trying to research specific effects of gunshots on different parts of the body i.e. how much damage would a specific calliber or type of shotgun shell cause at point blank range. Anyone have any good online resources? Or does anyone work in that industry (coroner, medical field, EMT, etc.) that I could pm?

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Charles from Portland is reading Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones January 16, 2012 - 8:41pm

i know from doing a lot of research into crimes, forensics, and people who thought they were commiting the perfect murder, googling this stuff can land you in prison.... if someone close to you suddenly gets shot.

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Dave from a city near you is reading constantly January 16, 2012 - 9:01pm

Josef, let me get back to you tomorrow, I think I know a forum where ballistics and wounding were discussed in excruciating detail.

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jl85 from originally East Tennessee now Southern California is reading everything I can January 16, 2012 - 9:14pm

@Charles haha yeah hopefully no one I knows die too soon, saw something like that the other day on one of those true crime shows where the guy did an internet search 6 months earlier that they pulled off his hard drive that ultimately convinced the jury he was guilty. But I think I have the stories to back up the research...it's all in the name of creativity!

@Dave thanks I'll be waiting for that one. 

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postpomo from Canada is reading words words words January 16, 2012 - 9:20pm

what, you don't trust CSI or Dexter?

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_ January 16, 2012 - 10:06pm

This is how much damage a 12-gauge police-issued shotgun will do to a head from ten feet.

Of course, a zombie's head is probably a little softer than ours. And ours probably isn't a baloon with a face painted on it.

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aliensoul77 from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall. January 16, 2012 - 11:55pm

Okay, we need a favorite horror movie scenes thread.

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spence from planet is reading Books January 17, 2012 - 9:14am

Google from a public computer, duh. The community college is right up the road.

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Dave from a city near you is reading constantly January 17, 2012 - 9:37am

http://www.m4carbine.net/forumdisplay.php?f=91

 

A subforum at m4carbine.net dedicated to terminal ballistics (lethality).  There's so much info there browse around a bit, check the stickies, or try a search with your specific terms.  Good luck, let me know if that helps.

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JonnyGibbings January 17, 2012 - 9:57am

I'f I were you, I'd just sedate some people in bars, get a van and shoot them. In fact, I have a list of names you could start on.

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. January 17, 2012 - 10:03am

I've been doing some field research for my book. It's quite riveting.

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jl85 from originally East Tennessee now Southern California is reading everything I can January 17, 2012 - 12:29pm

Thanks Dave about to scour the pages for my anwser. I thought about calling up the cops but I don't think they would have taken my questions the right way. Silly police, always taking it literal.

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Kirk from Pingree Grove, IL is reading The Book Of The New Sun January 25, 2012 - 5:16pm

So I did this and got a bunch of good results. 

The very first is a pdf titled Practical Pathology of Gunshot Wounds that might help you a lot