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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8300106" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Ohhh my good lord.3 inch diameter TEMPORARY. CAVITY. This means that it gets pushed out of the way by the forces involved, then falls back into place. The 1.4 inch PERMANENT CAVITY is the result of cut tissues sagging because the human body is kinda like water balloon full of Jello fruit salad with chunks in. The actual WOUND CHANNEL is where the material was perforated and cut. Is everything in the permanent cavity still intact? No. Obviously. Muscles get torn and displaced, small bones get pulverized, etc. Is it a full hole in your body at that size? Also no. naughty word's still hanging down or flopped at the bottom of it, it just got cut along the line of the wound channel. And on the left and right of the bullet's path there'll be a lot of damage, some stuff torn, but the tearing is radial not linear. (And since the body of a human is mostly oriented vertically...)Also, it isn't "A mere 3 inches". It's a mere 1.5 inches in any given direction from the wound channel itself. Then it collapses inward to a 1.4 inches, diameter, PERMANENT Cavity. So if this musketball passes your heart, but doesn't hit it, your heart gets shoved away by 1.5 inches and then falls back into place as the cavitation ends and gets strained down into the wound channel before popping back up to where it belongs, roughly. Will it take some damage? Absolutely! Will it still work? Unless you've got some kind of heart problem and it getting tugged triggers that problem, yes it'll be fine.And as to the difference between the Longsword and the Bullethole?Average longsword was 1.75 inches wide, not three inches, in fact. So let's -start- with that. First thing we'd need to do is look at a Blade Geometry to determine thickness. I'm partial to Lenticular, myself! But for ease of math let's go for the Diamond, Hmm?<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Sword_cross_section.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />That's a cross-width of about 1/3rd the diamond length at it's widest point. 1.75 inches/3 is 0.58 inches or right about 1.4 Centimeters. So right away, the height of the wound is .11 inches smaller than the rifle ball point of entry. However it's also over an inch -wider-. And this might shock you, but most naughty word in your body is laid out on a vertical plan, not a horizontal one! All the naughty word that sword slices through on it's horizontal thrust way in is gonna dangle into or flop at the bottom of... are you ready? A Permanent Body Cavity! However unlike the musketball, this permanent wound cavity isn't going to be tall. It's also going to be the -actual- wound channel.Well. Unless you thrust it in on a vertical angle. In which case it's going to thrust more deeply because all that stuff laid out vertically? It'll hit less of it and face less resistance, like cutting pork with the grain instead of across it. Musketball is round and does not care. Sword cares.But then comes part two: Cutting force. That -widens- the wound channel even further as the blade presses against the (current) edge of the wound to widen it.So we've already got a wound channel wider than the ball and only marginally shorter at it's tallest point. Then we make it go wider as we pull the blade out, doing more damage. All those arteries and organs are going to get cut. Not pushed and crushed and stretched. Cut. Actual perforations.And, of course, you're partial to the "Vital Organs" but it might surprise you to know they're all pretty close to the skin. How close? Stabbing someone in the heart only requires about 1.2 inches of stab-depth. Very hard, on account of the ribs. But if you go under them it's only about 2.7 inches of stab required, so still not much. And then you've got that larger wound channel. And then the draw cut to go with it. Widening everything up.But hey, let's not forget that an Arming Sword (What most people -think- of as a longsword) tapers to about 2cm (.78 inches) right near the point. Still gonna wind up with a wider hole than your average musketball (Traveling at 300m/s with 1,440J) once the wider portions of the blade follow, and then the draw cut happens.Anyway. It doesn't really matter in the end.</blockquote>

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