u can EASILY still have oxygen in a lung that's been hit by a typical handgun bullet, and certainly the OTHER lung can still function. I have a brother who's only HAD one lung for many years, now. A hole in the chest wall., or even an entrance AND exit hole, does NOT necessarily cause a pneumo-thorax collapse. The skin can "shift", and clothing can help close off that hole. Naturally, a large exit hole makes this less likely to occur. "holding" the air in your lungs is not much of the issue, <font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font>. It's the oxygen that's ALREADY in the BLOOD, on the way to the BRAIN, that matters.
The mammalian BRAIN KEEPS 5 second's worth of oxygenated blood IN the cranium. As that supply gets low, the heart pumps ANOTHER 5+seconds worth of oxygenated blood to the brain. So a lung hit leaves the brain at LEAST 10 seconds worth of functioning,a nd if the OTHER lung is still functional, the time frame could easily be much longer.
I never said AK round, if SOFTPOINT, was feeble. NOTICE, <font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font>, that I don't insist on a BALL bullet in the pistol being worth a hoot, at ANY speed? I say a PREFRAG, 3 segmented bullet is, at 2200 fps. The SAME physics as tears apart any fluid filled container that is struck by such a bullet, <font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font>. The incompressibility of fluids. U know, HYDRAULICS? Basic engineering theory.
The sort of loads used by the Shanghai cops (lrn .38's, etc) that's the best you can do, given the fact that not neaarly enough training was possible to give them the HEAD hit option. With proper loads, tho, you can tear up a guy MORE with one shot than you can with 5-6 such .38 hits.
