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<blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 8297997" data-attributes="member: 6788736"><p>No, it's really not more deadly.</p><p></p><p>Musket balls do all the same damage as a thrust to the chest with a longsword (punch a large hole and cause serious bleeding), <em>plus </em>the extra trauma to surrounding tissue and organs caused by your body near instantly decelerating a .69 cal lead ball traveling at 400mps, and transferring that energy to the surrounding tissue.</p><p></p><p>A long sword thrust with a roughly 3lb longsword traveling at 5' per second is 15 pounds feet/second of momentum:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/momentum-of-an-arrow-or-a-sword-thrust.651467/" target="_blank">Momentum of an arrow or a sword thrust?</a></p><p></p><p>Its roughly the same energy generated by a 400 grain arrow fired at 250' per second. (15 lbs per foot second) by a modern 65lb Hunting bow, which delivers 55.5 ft/lbs of energy on target<strong> (75 joules).</strong></p><p></p><p>By comparison, a .69 caliber smoothbore musket ball has 463 grains, and is fired at 1,200' per second, delivering roughly 1480 ft/lbs of energy on target, or <strong>over <em>2000 </em>joules.</strong></p><p></p><p>The difference between your body decelerating a projectile with <strong>75 </strong>joules of energy (the arrow), and it stopping <strong>2000 </strong>joules (the musket ball) and the effect this energy absorption has on surrounding tissue, is immense.</p><p></p><p>The arrow and the sword punch a hole in you and bruise the nearby tissue. The musket ball literally turns nearby tissue to pulp, and dislodges organs hit (in addition to pulping them)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Flamestrike, post: 8297997, member: 6788736"] No, it's really not more deadly. Musket balls do all the same damage as a thrust to the chest with a longsword (punch a large hole and cause serious bleeding), [I]plus [/I]the extra trauma to surrounding tissue and organs caused by your body near instantly decelerating a .69 cal lead ball traveling at 400mps, and transferring that energy to the surrounding tissue. A long sword thrust with a roughly 3lb longsword traveling at 5' per second is 15 pounds feet/second of momentum: [URL='https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/momentum-of-an-arrow-or-a-sword-thrust.651467/']Momentum of an arrow or a sword thrust?[/URL] Its roughly the same energy generated by a 400 grain arrow fired at 250' per second. (15 lbs per foot second) by a modern 65lb Hunting bow, which delivers 55.5 ft/lbs of energy on target[B] (75 joules).[/B] By comparison, a .69 caliber smoothbore musket ball has 463 grains, and is fired at 1,200' per second, delivering roughly 1480 ft/lbs of energy on target, or [B]over [I]2000 [/I]joules.[/B] The difference between your body decelerating a projectile with [B]75 [/B]joules of energy (the arrow), and it stopping [B]2000 [/B]joules (the musket ball) and the effect this energy absorption has on surrounding tissue, is immense. The arrow and the sword punch a hole in you and bruise the nearby tissue. The musket ball literally turns nearby tissue to pulp, and dislodges organs hit (in addition to pulping them) [/QUOTE]
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