More On .30-06 Ballistics
An educational video illustrates the kinetic energy of a .30-06 bullet and how it behaves when it strikes hard objects and ballistic gelatin.
Earlier today I posted an essay Kirk Murder Theory: Subsonic Rifle Cartridge Fired From Roof Near Water Feature that elicited a lively reader response and a great deal of commentary. I believe the following video does a good job of illustrating why I am skeptical that a .30-06 bullet, fired from a conventional cartridge, was stopped by Charlie Kirk’s neck.
Here I would like to emphasize that if ALL of the energy of a bullet fired from a conventional .30-06 cartridge was absorbed by Charlie’s neck, it would have resulted in spectacular damage to his neck, and not a clean hole that ruptured the carotid artery without passing through his neck.
The video makes an excellent presentation of .30-06 ballistics, as well as the anatomy of the human neck and how it compares to that of the thorax of large game animals.
Here is another video of a .30-06 bullet passing through a 4 inch diameter pork shoulder, plus a piece of plate steel, and then a liter bottle of cola.
Note that even the full metal jacket round does not merely punch a hole through the pork shoulder, but blows it apart due to the shock wave generated by the bullet traveling at over twice the speed of sound.
The video presentations are consistent with my experience with the .30-06. Some of my readers assumed that I have little experience with rifles. In fact, I own a Remington 700 .30-06 and grew up hunting deer in Texas with numerous rifle nuts. I am also a true crime author and have extensively studied the forensic literature on gunshot wounds.
We live in an era in which we are frequently presented with extremely strange incidents that do not seem to be properly investigated by state and federal agencies. These agencies cloak much of their activity in secrecy and frequently fail to offer plausible explanations for what is observed and captured on video.
Consider that we still don’t know anything about Thomas Matthew Crooks, who appears to have been shot by a sniper after he had fired his shots and was attempting to crawl back down the roof to escape. Note in the pictures below that he had moved a considerable distance down from the roof’s ridge when he was shot in the head. One wonders if it was Crooks who tossed the rifle aside after he fired his shots, or if a responding police officer placed it in the position in which it was photographed.
If it was the latter, it strikes me as strange that an officer would leave the magazine in the receiver instead of removing it to safe the weapon. The position in which Crooks was shot suggests that he got the Jack Ruby treatment before he was arraigned.
When we are told that Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck by a bullet fired from a .30-06 sporting rifle, but that the bullet did not pass through his neck, we are justified in asking if the projectile was indeed fired from a conventional .30-06 cartridge.
We all know it was a bs story from the start, like all these incidents Imo he was shot from behind to the right and we saw the exit wound.
You are right, John Leake, as usual. There is ZERO possibility of the round that killed Charlie Kirk being a standard velocity .30-06. There is also ZERO doubt, that the round which killed Charlie Kirk was a subsonic round. There also is ZERO doubt about the firearm being sound suppressed. No one would have heard the whisper of the round being fired because of the audio of Kirk speaking, therefore no need for two shooters to coordinate firing simultaneously. The pressing questions then are... who is the real shooter, where did they fire from, what was the firearm and round used, and 'who dun' it. There are many possible motives.