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Date: Sun, 5-Jan-86 14:39:45 EST
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	Hi. I know just a little about guns and ammo, but there
	is an aspect of a slugs stopping power that isn't taken
	into account by your formula: the amount of energy
	the slug imparts to its target and the speed it does it in.
	That aspect is hard to quantify exactly, with ammo ranging
	from teflon-coated to rapid expanding soft hollow points,
	but I think, for an example a small slug that goes right
	through a target gains relatively little in stopping power
	for any energy beyond that needed to push it through the
	target. However there is a slug designed to impart all its
	energy to the target so quickly and in so little a penetrative
	depth that hits outside vital zones still knock down their
	victim. These are legal ammo for a variety of calibers.
	"Glaser Safety Slugs". They are a thin outer slug filled with
	tiny shot that spread out immediately on contact and owing to
	the vast surface area they stop soon, transfering all their
	energy. They are safer than normal bullets because they
	don't riccochet. I've heard that .38 Glasers stop like
	.44 Magnums. And you only have the recoil of a +P .38 round!
	I suggest you ask your local dealer for them.

	[ Or make your own glasers at home with large cavity hollowpoints,
	  some wax/paraffin and mercury! -jh ]

	Joe Weinstein