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Originally Posted by SeaKing
Actually, what happens depends on the type of bullet, whether armor is worn, just Kevlar or ceramic also, where the person is hit, bone or n ot, the person's size, and momentum, adrenalin, etc.
You might shoot a standing deer in the heart, and he drops straight down. Hit a running deer same place and he goes a quarter of a mile or more.
Of course Zombies are a whole other game. We could devote a whole thread just to shooting zombies.
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It's fairly simple physics. Momentum is mass x velocity. A bullet's maximum momentum is imparted when it leaves the gun, and conservation of energy requires that the gun (and therefore the shooter) feel the impact of the imparting that momentum (excluding recoilless systems for simplification). If the shooter didn't get thrown backwards then neither will the victim. All that body armour does is distribute the momentum over a wider area. Most movement on the part of the victim comes from shock, muscle reflex, and gravity - not the impact of the bullet. ... Oh, and zombies don't change the physics.