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All sorts of strange things happen in high velocity impacts, especially supersonic impacts. The trick with bullets is that they have a wake with a very-low pressure area behind.

The bullet causes compression at the point and instant of impact, but that's followed immediately by the wake, which is lower pressure. The compressed mass is going to do an elastic rebound, some of it in the direction of least resistance, ie, in the direction of the hole, open air, and low pressure.



Earth to Enterprise. Can you hear me? Hypervelocity, elastic rebound, silicone tape around a melon? Do you copy?

Negative, cannot confirm science behind impact.

Anyone here at xpt who has used a comparable rifle (non hypervelocity) to shoot at a deer or something with a head, brain and skull? Please describe impact.

Jokes aside, I watched the melon video (the hidden implication maybe being that JFK was a melon head?) which is interesting, but I will try to find out more from some other sources. Maybe law enforcement has some info on those kind of things. Not that it matters, but just out of curiosity...