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Oddjob,
I will answer your questions in a little while...have a OR case to do in a minute.
Somehow the tangent is getting more play than the original intent:
The fact that the LeMas round tested in gel performed in a different way than in live tissue and the fact that the gel reports and the opinion of ballistics experts based on the gel tests have made it so difficult/impossible for this ammunition to have an opportunity for field testing. The gel was the "1st stop" on the road to further evaluation and by the reports generated, it "failed" to perform as advertised....but it didn't; it has completely different properties in tissue as compared to gel. This is the primary point I made. How many other types of ammunition that have been developed in the past, never made it past the gel block because of 'anemic' performance? The test can be valid for features of each round as I stated and clearly understand. If I was comparing a Hydroshok in 2 different calibers, etc.
I will get back to your questions in a few hours.
Thank you for your ability to question and reason what you know and have read.
TR: incapacitation is a better term...thank you.
ss
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
Last edited by swatsurgeon; 05-21-2006 at 09:22.
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