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Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon
Hmm. Maybe my perception of the Winchesters causing large wounds is due to their resemblance to a shotgun. Jessica's blinding in Ep3 doesn't help much with this.
Still, the lack of exit wounds is very telling. A weapon of this power would usually go straight through someone's body, correct?
If there's never an exit wound, then wouldn't the murder weapon have to be a much less powerful gun?
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Jessica's blinding did not actually occur due to the bullet, it was due to the powder burn from a shot fired in close vicinity to her eyes, probably 5cm or less. She's very likely not actually blinded. Any firearm fired in this manner would produce a burn like that regardless of power or caliber, and it's severity should depend purely on luck and how fast do you blink.
(people actually instinctively blink VERY fast) The role of binding her eyes is mostly to prevent her from rubbing the damaged sclera and cornea and getting dirt on the burn, this kind of injury
does not normally result in loss of vision at all.
Looking at those wound profiles, bullet passes intact from 25 to 60 cm depending on type -- so yes, there would be exit wounds. If I'm right and .45 Long Colt is actually longer and contains more powder than .45 ACP, you need to essentially stretch those about a quarter along the distance axis. A close range shot through the heart would have an entry wound, an exit wound, and a bullet embedded in furniture somewhere further down the line.
(Sorry, Kanon)
For comparison, here's what a hollowpoint .45 ACP does:
Scale is in inches here. While the wound would be much bigger and more severe,
(which is the whole point of a hollowpoint bullet -- expanding early to optimally use hydrostatic pressure and increase stopping power) a bullet remaining inside the body would still be rare.
Regardless, Battler very rarely examines the corpses himself, and pretty much never turns them over to see if there's an exit wound on the other side, so we usually simply don't know if they exist or not.