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I’ve been doing a lot of reading on handgun wounds and a lot of experts say velocity and the temporary stretch cavity do not contribute to wounding.<\/p>\nI’ve been doing a lot of reading on handgun wounds and a lot of experts say velocity and the temporary stretch cavity do not contribute to wounding.<\/p>\n
I’m a simple man but if that were true, wouldn’t a .38 Special be just as deadly as a .357 Magnum?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been doing a lot of reading on handgun wounds and a lot of experts say velocity and the temporary stretch cavity do not contribute to wounding. I’m a simple man but if that were true, wouldn’t a .38 Special be just as deadly as a .357 Magnum?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2509],"tags":[225,496,381],"class_list":["post-8435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense","tag-handgun-stopping-power","tag-handgun-wounds","tag-terminal-performance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hujZ-2c3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7350,"url":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/nosler-handgun-ammo\/","url_meta":{"origin":8435,"position":0},"title":"Nosler Handgun Ammo","author":"gunwriter","date":"July 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As of now my son and I have fired in excess of 500 rounds of Nosler's Match Grade handgun ammo through his Wilson Combat 1911 in 9mm. 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