As they say, there's no replacement for displacement.
What we're really talking about is producing wound channels that have the depth and shockwave needed to near-instantly kill the animal we're hunting with a minimum of wasted meat.
Energy is the most common unit for measuring this, but is not the same thing as a "unit of wound generation, depth and shockwave". The difference is most apparent when talking about bullet caliber, where for a given amount of energy and the same bullet construction, they tend to produce larger wound channels. Which is pretty intuitive - bigger bullets make bigger holes, and bigger holes are more lethal than small ones.
Often people bring up archery in these discussions, and they should not. Arrows kill by laceration, not by creating shockwave wound channels.
What we're really talking about is producing wound channels that have the depth and shockwave needed to near-instantly kill the animal we're hunting with a minimum of wasted meat.
Energy is the most common unit for measuring this, but is not the same thing as a "unit of wound generation, depth and shockwave". The difference is most apparent when talking about bullet caliber, where for a given amount of energy and the same bullet construction, they tend to produce larger wound channels. Which is pretty intuitive - bigger bullets make bigger holes, and bigger holes are more lethal than small ones.
Often people bring up archery in these discussions, and they should not. Arrows kill by laceration, not by creating shockwave wound channels.
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