I've seen images of men with their testicles in a tourniquet and they did not look well at all. They weren't even bleeding that much. It was less of a medical emergency and more of a hobby it seems.
I appreciate both your joke and, most especially, your username.
Who would win? Private healthcare or a Phillips screwbullet?
Jfc I hope you're not serious lol. These are self-defense rounds, meant to break apart inside the attacker or intruder, so you're not shooting through walls, potentially killing people on the other side.
Part of a defense training class includes, "know your target and what's behind it" for a reason
Nope, these are way worse. They're supposed to overpenetrate. But they look like they're supposed to expand and fragment, right?
Check it out: https://lehighdefense.com/reloading-bullets/xtreme-penetrator.html
They do really cool stuff inside ballistics gel because of the surface pressure on that flattened tip
Yes, it generates a larger cavity/hole than a JHP (jacketed hollow point) and the article continues comparing JHP to this new round.
A traditional HP is just that, the center is open, and it almost immediately breaks open on impact so shrapnel sort of goes all over the target. This is safer for everyone involved but might take several shots to stop someone because of the little actual penetration. Especially of a heavy canvas coat is worn it can severely degrade performance.
This round, is copper filled with a fluid from the sounds of it, but instead of the front opening up in impact, this his there target and spreads from the rear (the fluid moving forward causing cavitation part). This means the round had a chance to penetrate while also expanding and puting pressure on surrounding tissue which causes more damage. Still though, as it expands, it should greatly reduce velocity and not go through the entire target. A JHP might go on 2-5 inches or more based on design and caliber. Maybe this could go 6-10 inches. If it did exit, there's likely too little force to do extreme damage to whatever else it hits.
I've got some in my safe, but never shot this particular round to experience it myself. I've shot all sorts of standard ball, FMJ, JHP, and composite or lead-free rounds of numerous caliber and form factor.
Not to mention the brand has Defense in its name.
Oh shit for real? I'm stupid and sent you ones I'm not familiar with because I didn't actually read it before sending. They also make them without fluid, just a solid bit of copper. Does the same thing but doesn't expand
I looked up "fluted penetrator" and just linked the first thing I saw, so thanks for the correction and actually reading the article that I was being too much of a tool to read.
This is the bullet I should have used in the image and original comment.
All good man!! There's a ton of different ammo aimed at different things, so no doubt too many overlap in names and specs, etc.
Holy shit that guy chose "defensive" ammo of .357 magnum lmao! Is there a .357 that wouldn't destroy the target? Haha that's awesome. The 9mm for the 2nd test is far more common, but interesting they're going for penetration while still expanding. You'd think they contradict each other.
All I know is, I don't want to be on the receiving end of any bullets!
Okay, so that's the wierd part of them. The author says expansion but it's not the bullet itself expanding on those. The idea is the bullet stays rigid but those fluted channels and flat nose push matter outward away from the bullet.
Yeah though, bad wound to try and do any kind of first response on
I feel like you can if you do the whole torso
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That big artery in the inner thigh. ... Yeah you can die pretty fast if it gets severed.
Femoral artery.
Femoral of the story
A friend of mine got heart surgery through his inner thigh. That artery is huge, so it provides easy access to the heart without needing to go near any organs. It still creeps me out to think about it, on the other hand it is pretty awesome that's technologically feasible and provides a much safer procedure with a shorter recovery period.
there's a similar one on your arm. the one they give you IVs in. fun fact i was getting an IV removed and i had a fairly new RN (first year on the floor but damned competent. third day on my room and we'd gotten to become friendly. i'm pretty sure she had a family member who'd had a port and had been their caregiver or something) and she had just popped the catheter out of my AC. she pressed down with the cotton ball with her other thumb and... missed. GOOOOSH GOOOOSH GOOOOSH GOOOOSH goes my antecubital all over the room and she turns green. runs out of the room as i slowly and calmly (because i am high as balls on the good hospital painkillers) reach over and put some pressure on. about 30 seconds later she comes back in with a big gauze, i have the bleeding stopped and there were five great big red streaks all across the room. And her now that i think about it i am sure i was so embarrassed i couldn't look her in the eye. I think i traumatized that poor woman. i'm just like "hey" You really can't control your instincts until you've been through it once or twice.
Once at a pet store , I reached in the cage to pet a jumbo rat that was sitting out for adoption (cause I love animals) but it bit me. And just happened to hit some main artery in my finger (I didn't even know bigger ones were in the finger,). I pull my hand back and literally spray blood, 6 feet in diameter around the whole area. It's on the floor. The cage. The table. The shelf. Like looked like someone got stabbed. And it was just a small puncture bite.
I mean it hurt but I was distracted by all the mess. So I wrap my gushing finger. And try to clean up my blood that's everywhere cause I didn't want a minimum wage worker to have to do it.
My bf at the time was a very squeamish guy. I actually saw his lips turn blue at the sight and I thought he was going to faint. (Yeah a grown man).
So I had to drive us both to the ER where I got a tetanus shot and a bandaid. (Not much to do for punctures).
Also my insurance wanted me to sue the pet store but I refused. They called multiple times. Wanted me to say the pet store was liable for the ER visit.
Which certainly would have resulted in someone losing their minimum wage job.
The hospital wanted me to report the animal to have it euthanized. I refused (literally my fault. ). .anywho.
I just remembered all the blood. And it happened so fast.
Lucky it was just a finger and I easily put pressure on it and stopped it pretty fast.
I've never put my hand in an unknown animal cage again. 😅
i was on the way to the pet store later tonight (to get a therapeutic bag of kitty litter to ragepunch) and you may have just saved me from getting catscratched
So much to unpack. Love the first gen area Playstation sweatshirt. This looks like an actual photo. What is that in the background? A toilet? Like in the jails? I need context.
Found larger version on tineye:
I don't know if this helps though...
Well, at least that metal thing is a normal kitchen. One of 26,419 questions answered. 😋
Rifle looks like a Galil, so she's probably got some relation to the Israeli military.
I probably just caused you to have more questions...
If you aim too low, you'll hit a leg, which can be tourniquetted.
So I know this is a shitpost, but a pelvic shot is taught by some militaries as part of an alternative failure drill (two shots to the chest, followed by one to the head if they continue to be a threat). Its a larger target than a headshot requires, and is rarely protected by armor. Plus, if you miss, the shot is more likely to hit the ground instead of continuing flight well beyond whoever you were shooting at.
So shitpost or not, its not the worst place to shoot.
recoil also tends to pull high (if you're not anticipating), so a groin shot if pulled would just end up centre mass instead, where a head shot would be a whiff
taught by some militaries
Also some police agencies.
More importantly, there are 'junctional tourniquets' now for armpits and groins. They're obviously not as effective as a tourniquet around the limbs, but they're around.
Trigger discipline, Sarah! For Christ’s sake how many times have we gone over this!?
If you look closer her finger isn't actually on the trigger.
I have seen too many AI images of girls with guns recently.
This looks old enough and accurate.
Girls are statistically better marksmen anyways
You got any stats on that? Because I feel like gender-myths shouldn't be propagated one way or the other when they're not true.
Because I can't find stuff to support your statement.
What I do find is Men are more accurate than women in aiming at targets in both near space and extrapersonal space
Men outperformed women on both the extrapersonal aiming tasks, and women outperformed men on the task of fine motor skill. However, a male advantage was observed for one of the aiming tasks performed in near space, suggesting that the male advantage for aiming accuracy does not result from proximity
But then again also
The mid-points of a series of lines which were positioned both within hand-reach (near space) and beyond hand-reach (far space) were estimated by 24 women and 24 men. When using a laser pointer to perform estimations, women were more accurate in the near condition than the far, whereas men were more accurate in the far condition than the near. When using a stick pointer for the far condition, women were more accurate than when using the laser, whereas men were more accurate using the laser pointer than the stick for the far condition. There was no difference between near and far accuracy scores for either sex using the stick. These results suggest that use of a tool which provides proprioceptive feedback causes the brain to remap far-space stimuli as if situated in near space.
Being amazing at shooting is more an individual trait than anything tied strictly to sex.
I'm not saying women aren't better marksmen, I've heard that as well. But I served with a bunch and none of them were especially crack shots. They weren't especially bad either. I never thought it's got that much to do with genes or hormones, really. So I'd be interested to see if there is science showing women really are better on average.
I have no real source. Just personal anecdotes and what ive been told. Afaik, its not a biological avantage. Women just tend to be more relaxed and less prone to showing off which shows up as an uptick of performance in fields where precision is important
Women can be very good marksmen. If the implication here is that I don't think there are real photos of girls with guns that's not what I'm saying. I've just seen two or three posts recently of AI generated photos of girls with guns that replicated the film grain and had this 90s feel to them. One of them was good enough that I didn't even question it until I read the comments.
Gotcha. Nah im just being a stinker. I can see why someone would think this could be ai. By the time i had commented that had already been disproven
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