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Originally Posted by jester
Part of this is because it has enough power to enter the body cavities but not enough to exit. So, it just bounces around inside the cavity a bit. The end result is, it has one entry hole, but in the cavity that it entered, well there are several other little channels it made as its energy was disapated as it tried to get out.
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I've heard that Mafia hit men prefer .22 pistols to execute people, using head shots for this reason. The round will penetrate the skull but not exit it, and bounces around. This also means a cleaner kill as the exiting bullet doesn't remove half the skull, useful if you have to put the body in a car trunk and dump it somewhere else.