medxam
US Veteran
From a practical standpoint, after having examined several hundred wounds to HUMAN bones produced by .357 mag projectiles, it is so variable that it is a "crap shoot". It depends on which bone you hit and what part of which bone. Parts of the skull are only millimeters thick while others are as much as a half to 3/4 inch thick The femoral head in the hip may be 2 or more inches thick.
Shot placement has always been the key. The front of the chest is only protected by relatively thin ribs. The sides of the head are also relatively thin. Stomach shoyts that get the aorta encounter almost no resistance.
As for bears, I have never autopsied one.
Shot placement has always been the key. The front of the chest is only protected by relatively thin ribs. The sides of the head are also relatively thin. Stomach shoyts that get the aorta encounter almost no resistance.
As for bears, I have never autopsied one.