ABSTRACT
One of the more distressing aspects of ballistics is the fact that it is used against living creatures. This is not meant to imply that hunting is good or bad, but simply that there are instances when people, intentionally or not, fire weapons at other people or animals, and the effects of the bullet impact must be understood. Because the subject of wound ballistics is as complicated as the anatomy of the target, we shall conduct only a cursory review here, pointing the interested reader to some excellent references for further detail. We shall only treat subjects that affect humans, although these may affect animals in a similar manner.
