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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 3314624" data-attributes="member: 24969">Keep in mind that the idea of how a soldier fights in warfare was different then also. IIRC, When Marshall did his survey, the idea was that a soldier was supposed to take careful, aimed shots at an expected range of 1000 yards. This was done because they thought that the main obstical was getting the soldier to hit and kill his target and not waste ammo. This is one of the reasons that most armies in WWII still used bolt action rifles. Due to many factors, including Marshall's report, the theory behind this changed to getting the soldier to fire at the target, and sending as much ammo down range as possible. By WWII, things were changing with the US adopting an automatic rifle for it's main arm and the creation of assault rifles. Military thinking changed to firing as many shots as possible at a range of 200 yards. Calibers got smaller so that soldiers could carry more ammo and because it was not as important to kill a target as to wound him. There is an FBI report ( I think <a href="http://www.firearmstactical.com/hwfe.htm" >this</a> is it.) that goes into fire fights. Basically, unless you hit the brain or spinal collumn, all death is caused by blood loss. People fall down, but there is no real reason for this and is greatly dependant on if they know they were shot. Just read the conclusions.</blockquote>