>>643417
I've met a guy who survived a 40mm bofors AP round. Hit him right on the outside of the leftside torso and took out a huge amount of his liver and organs there. Couldn't walk for three years, still has a gaping U shaped hole in that side. Humans are stupidly durable cunts.
>>643341
Most bullets that pass about the 16 inch mark for bare ballistic gel are going to punch clean through the torso. Given that you're trying to exclude spine injuries, I'm guessing
>The victim involved is very large
>You're trying to find a way for the victim to not be paralyzed
Which means that the minimum gel penetration results that should be taken into account for large game is 30". If you're looking to stop someone dead in their tracks, you want veins, arteries and nerves damages to trigger flinch responses in nerve clusters-powerful pistol rounds such as 10mm and revolver cartridges such as .357 magnum and up with large bullet expansion on hit can do this. If you want complete annihilation, you need massive expansion and/or explosives within the bullet, starting with .50BMG. An important point to note- full metal jacket rounds do not expand and actually increase the chance of people surviving a confrontation. General buttnaked is a great example of this.
TLDR;
Assuming you shot the cunt at 50m:
3 shots hollowpoint 44 magnum: He's done, and most large game is terminal
5.56 hollowpoint: Going to need immediate trauma team in the next 30 seconds, else kebab removed
.308 hollowpoint: Kebab removed even harder
.308 or 8mm explosive round: Kebab B Gone
Expanding shotgun slug to center mass = fucking dead on the spot, permanent wound channel extends to nearly 34 inches, with a gaping hole an inch in diameter
45-70 government expansion- Organ salad, wound channel on gel extends 28 inches, wound channel 3/4 of an inch
.50 BMG high explosive tracer: Nothing left of whatever you hit, it's chunky salsa from the bullet impact alone, the explosive is the icing on the cake that turns it into puree
20mm cannon explosive: The field around them for 10m is now fertilized with blood and bone and entire torsos go absent
30mm: The above but even harder