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Since we are about 2/3s water as well, it gives an indication of what a bullet does to us, transfer a lot of energy into our tissue. For example, a high speed bullet (rifles bullets are a lot faster than handgun bullets) can actually "miss" the heart and still destroy it due to the hydraulic shock of the bullet passing through the tissue.
Forensics use a water tank to shoot a bullet from a suspect gun and since the bullet is perfectly preserved they can see the very specific rifling marks left by the barrel. Those tanks can be relatively short 
It is the same reason why bullets once shot into a person/animal, stay in there and allow forensics technicians to analyse them.
It should be noted that the bullets are hollow points, designed to deform and transfer a lot of energy into the tissue/water. If they had used a full metal jacket bullet, it would have gotten a lot further since they don't deform as much.
The Dutch police went from FMJ to a bullet with more stopping power (hollow points and the likes are actually banned in the Geneva convention for militairy use !!) called the DAG Action bullet. It is a cross between a hollow point and FMJ but it does not expand/fragment as hollow points and the likes do. But it does transfer more energy.
Reportedly the main reason they changed is after a shooting incident with a terrorist from the Rote Armee Fraction/Baader Meinhof Gruppe where the bad guy was shot many times and was still returning fire. The FMJ bullets went straight through without doing much damage to a madman on high adrenaline. MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
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28th Feb 2015 10:47am
