Thread: Knockdown power

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings Micky and All,
It is not the O2 in the lungs that keeps the deer going but the O2 in the blood. A fast bleeding shot to the lungs runs the blood pressure down quickly. A slow bleeding shot to the heart results in a slower death. Bruce grant wrote a very good chapter on this called Why bullets kill. You still see the fable about a shot to the heart resulting in instant death being repeated which is why, Shearer, the debate continues.
All good fun though. Grandpamac.

Regarding the instant collapse Heart shot, there was a vid posted here a while back ( by @stug)about a South African game hunting outfit and what they had found regarding shot placement. They had Vets examine dead shot animals and found that on the rare occasion that instant collapse from a heart shot occurred it was concluded that the bullet impact had taken place at the precise timing of a heart beat sending blood to the brain - there was evidence of a brain embolism or similar rupture which had caused the collapse from the highly pressurised blood