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Q. What should be the effect of that on any soft body which was hit by a bullet? What would the difference be between…
A. In ballistics we measure it with paper screens and we get results, what we call keyholing. The desirability is to avoid this keyholing as much as possible. Keyholing means that when it comes to this particular piece of paper here it comes on like this (illustrating) the bullet possibly in that direction, wobbling.
Q. It is not perfectly straight?
A. It is not perfectible straight, not necessarily.
Q. What is the consequence?
A. It makes a hole, what we call keyhole, that is, not a true hole in the paper, but may he very slightly oblong.
CORONER: Enlarged?
A. Well, not very much larger, not very much larger.
MR. BARCLAY: So that the perforation which it makes is bigger and of a different shape than once it has steadied down?
A. Than the true diameter.
Q. Then a bullet striking a person before it has steadied down will make a worse wound than once it has steadied down?
A. I have no experience in that at all, I have no experience, I could not say.
THE CORONER : According to theory ?
A. I am talking with regard to the piece of paper of which I have experience, yes.
MR. BARCLAY : That is the effect on the paper screens which you take ?
A. Slight effect, will make a hole slightly oblong.
Q. Does the Government issue or make any dum-dum or
