*shudder*

These websites has a fascinating comparison of different bullets and the damage they do. I'd never heard of the caviation phenomenon before, but it certainly adds a further element of horror to the trauma of a shooting. Particularly ghastly is seeing how equal-calibre bullets can cause vastly different wounds.

Here are some naïve questions: Do the manufacturers of these bullets deliberately seek results like these? Is their testing on fleshy substances, to test the amount of caviation and shock the wound will inflict? If so, I'd like to have a chat with the guy who designed the slow-killing 5.56...