Realistic Human DR

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Varyon

I average man has a chest depth of 10 inches), .

For ballistic testing purposes the FBI assumes 12 inches front to back and 18 inches side to side. That may be the upper range of "average" but you don't want a bullet that fails to penetrate adequately 50% of the time.

At 6' 190 lbs I might be at that upper bound of "average" but I'm not huge and with my back to a wall and using a yardstick my straight sternum to backbone distance looks to be around 11 1/2". That's the minimum distance for actually going through the center of mass. Travelling at an angle increases the distance of course.

Anthony's 6" looks like a grazing rib hit rather than true Torso penetration and his methodology looks suspect to me..