As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.....
The science of killing is a most interesting form in the realm of the proportion of weight to speed generating lethal tissue damage or shock in the target.
The idea of dead bodies on battlefields compared to living wounded requiring more resources to deal with them is not some recent American invention, but was well understood even in the Civil War era as sound military doctrine.
It was of an era of 58 caliber mini balls, spinning slightly driving large lead weights to make large holes in people.
Humane is and civilized are odd words, as crippling and injury is a more "humane" dogma than outright killing to end suffering. For example, the explosive harpoon was well known in whaling, and yet people deem that inhumane and unfair, due to the massive shock and quick death by the charge.
Trailing a whale around with harpoons stuck in it, then waiting for it to be lanced repeateldy is deemed less inhumane than quick killing charges.
The reality is that a sharp metal edge will kill as quickly if penetrating any artery as any charge, but the key is hitting that artery. So a bow hunter in killing deer will kill even more quickly than a low energy muzzle ball or a slug. The arrow being more deadly in effect than a firearm.
The OJ Simpson family proved the effect of a knife on Ron Goldman and Nichole Brown in being quite bloody, but not lethal unless one struck the correct artery. Cutting heads off did administer the final grace, but leaking a body to death is a struggle and would be deemed inhumane, and yet a Muslim cutting a head off is deemed inhumane.
The focus of this is not so much the incongruencies of the human judgment, but in the reality of the study of how a 10 bore black powder load would equal a 270 smokeless powder load in even surpassing it in the weight to hole to penetration ratio of a heavier larger object killing more effectively than the lighter and more shock value of the superior arm.
A 270 will drop deer sized game as in humans in their tracks due to a ration of the modern load can transfer energy to the tissue and by doing so knock the life out of the target. Make the target larger and the shock has the not necessary effect upon the elephant.
The elephant would then employ low shock and sheer weight in killing you, by using it's trunk to beat you death against a tree.
Dead is dead in all things, and you would be as dead as if shot by a 270 by the same force ration of the elephant pounding your body against a tree in much slower motion.
One would think that a cannon gun, like employed for humane killing of whales would be accepted, but it is not, in it bothers the human emotion in what is fair. It is more fair to cripple and wound a soldier, in order to use up other soldiers in evacuation according to the mindset with the ruse of life being preserved, compared to blowing up a soldier in a fraction of a second in ending life.
Obviously the shooting of soldiers with small 223 non expanding bullets is torture, but it is acceptable compared to the ending of life. The soldier accepts this torture for the chance at preserving life, when in survival one has a large gratuity to build a life on as a cripple.
None of this makes any logical sense in humane warfare or civilized killing. It is though the realm of exploration in the base study of large slow moving projectiles compared to high speed small projectiles for killing.
Karamojo Bell, the great elephant ivory hunter, used only 270 like bullets of non expansive nature, but utilized only brain shots for instant kills, as the German 7 x 57 Mauser was worthless in killing elephants in putting holes in hearts and lungs for kills.
That requires a rifleman and a perfect shot in every context. So in the grander scheme most are instead offered up the large heart lung area to wander lead into, to produce a kill which is adequate.
By instinct I have always cringed at the sniper training of head shots as the correct action would be to choose the heart lung area being larger. Yes this will be another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter, revealing far too much of the expertise and experience of the field beyond what the sniper school experts are taught in their flat world, but it is a study which is one of reality never before explained.
If one takes dimensional measurements of the human, they soon discover that the brain area, which is nose area to top of skull is in relation approximately the same size as the human chest cavity.
So in equal proportions, the chest shot is no different than the head shot, but the chest shot gives the sniper the illusion of a larger target area when it is not. This can be a hindrance too in distracting the unfocused shooter, as it always comes down to the reality of focusing on the bullet size area aimed at and not the complete target.
The human is unlike the bird in the human head remains almost stationary, like most mammals, so the head target is almost as sure as the chest target area.
The crux of this examination though is the reality that if one misses the skull, it is a clear miss and the target then is going to be moving fast and hiding that entire body. A miss of the chest area has the opportunity to in going low taking out the gut or nipping the spine. Lateral misses would take off an arm or a lung. Horizontal chess misses might take the throat or the head.
The John Kennedy footage are a textbook scientific examination of the missed target. Shots centered on target strike the neck when dropped from the head, and shots off center strike John Connally in the front seat.
The throat shot on John Kennedy is a revelation in the shooter had absolutely no practice nor experience in firing at moving targets as the moving car was moving JFK and a head shot became a throat shot simply by not having a lead.
The correct shot for JFK would have been the crosshairs just above the top of his head, which in lead would have been a lethal brain shot in the first shot. It would have tidied up the kill zone and no one would have questioned the Lee Oswald scenario.
The anchor shot is key in this study, as even a body cavity miss, will anchor the target, providing it is not large dangerous game, for the appropriate second kill shot.
In the day, the 10 bore was deemed the large animal killer. The 58 calibre was deemed the human killer of the 19th century. With the advent of smokeless powders, jacketed bullets, the lead bullet amounts decreased as the speed of the projectile increased, as much as the rifle weighing 15 pounds due to the small cannon charge became 8 pounds to the modern 6 pounds.
In Gulf War I, American Hero, Timothy McVeigh, made a supberb shot using an RPG at almost a mile distance in taking the head off an Iraqi soldier. This was frowned upon, but was greeted with glee by soldiers for the audaciousness of it.
If McVeigh had used an M 16, the bullet would have never reached the target, but it would have been acceptable to the military to kill in this manner.
The British snipers were quite heralded in Gulf War II for delivering rounds at long distance, but if one is delivering a 308 KATE or a 338 Lapua or a 50 Caliber bullet, there is a vast difference in platforms in skill required, and brings one to the question again of when Tim McVeigh was making an exceptional shot with an RPG which took a head off, what is the difference in a British sniper taking heads off with a 338 or 50 caliber weapon?
Heads off are heads off and dead is dead for all reasonable examination.
It is as McVeigh in Oklahoma City in the truck bomb was placed outside the building. It was detonated. Was that a more evil thing than if McVeigh had gone in and shot each person or like the OJ family gone in and knifed the federal employees to death?
Is it of matter that the truck bomb which went off did not really kill anyone in numbers at the Murrah Building, but the truck bomb instead detonated munitions which the Clinton administration had stored in that building below a daycare? It was those muntions which killed the majority of people and did the damage.
Once again the heavy charge of the truck, compared to the high explosive shells in the building like hunting whales which administered the kill shot.
What is more evil, Gen. Wesley Clark with Eric Holder burning children alive in the Branch Davidian compound, a BATF sniper blowing the head off of a mother holding her infant daughter at Ruby Ridge, Col. Khadaffi and his followers mass murdered, Chris Stevens and his gay parade raped to death and blown up, or actors in the bin Laden compound slaughtered to deflect from the birther issue, or was it the Navy SEALS sent out to be slaughtered by the regime as payback for the slaughter of the image of bin Laden, or was it Andrew Breitbart assassinated on a street corner for knowing of the above?
What is the definition in the Nobel Peace 21st century of civilized killing?
It is a fascinating study in how this has been deliberately been turned upside down in the killing to eat is condemned in carrot or cow, but the wholesale slaughter is celebrated.
The greatest detriment is that the mass populace has no experience in killing, so they do not know the difference between what is uncivilized and what is civilized as the grey areas approach, so it never dawns on them what is necessary and what is unacceptable.
So much information hidden in a few paragraphs on the kill snot.
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