this gun expert covers all those scenarios and says its extremely unlikely that what they are saying happened. And I have heard several other gun experts say the same thing.
I actually watched his entire video.
He talks a good game, but he is not credible. He would be
easily refuted and rejected as an "expert" if anyone tried to introduce him as an "expert" witness in any court. He's just another American whose
raison d'etre in life is to play with guns
He uses a lot of fancy terms like, "ballistic coefficient" when he explains bullet weight. And he conflates mass with aerodynamics. he also makes assumptions on flawed premises and adds in superfluous examples that are not relevant, but subconsciously would lead the average guy to conflate several issues to come to doubt the account of what happened.
I do agree with him on his key points though:
1. The 30.06 is a powerful round and can go clear through and through moose and deer, even after hitting bones and everything.
2. It is surprising / not surprising there is no exit wound.
3. Bullets do strange, unpredictable things within a fleshy, bony, muscled body with air cavities like the lungs. They can even change trajectories by 90 degrees. They can hold together intact, or mushroom, and they often break up and fragment.
Heck, when I was a kid, we'd cut an 'X' in the nose of a .22 rimfire lead bullet to make sure it would break apart upon impact. We shot up thousands and thousands of .22 rounds into everything from water balloons, tin cans full or bean, sand, water, into 2x4's, sand bags, buckets of water etc and then retrieve the bullets and fragments. The slightest variation could change everything. Lots of richochets when you think the angle would not result in one.
We did LOTS of stupid shit. Among other things, putting a .22 rimfire cartridge into the hole in a snow fence post used to secure the wire holding the fence to the post.
It fit perfectly. Then we'd shoot at the bullet with a pellet gun to set off the .22 rimfire. That is, until *I* learned, first hand, the practical demonstration of "for every reaction, there is an opposite and equal reaction". The brass case of the .22 came flying back and hit me in the crease below my moob. YOWZA! The surpise of it scared the crap outta me! Broke the skin and left the little brass casing punched into me like a plug cutter! Still have the little dimple scar there!
In any case, there are a million opinions out there. And none of them matter except for shooting the shit. Including mine.
As much as I'd LOVE his murder to end up being a MAGA't/Project 2025/Stephen Miller/Trump's FBI/CIA or other weirdo Trump or Trumptard plot to detract from Epstein or to create a false flag operation etc... the lone conflicted, unstable kid with grandpa's elk hunting rifle shooting him and the shot doing whatever it did seems to be the simplest, most plausible scenario.
I tend to live by Occams Razor: The simplest explanation for a phenomenon is more likely to be the correct one and
advises against multiplying assumptions unnecessarily.
The complexity in the incompetent and fractured Trump administration creating and executing such an elaborate plan to take out a relatively minor player in right wing social media is highly unlikely, and would, likely, already have had the whistle blown on it. As the bikers say;
'You can only keep a secret between 3 people when 2 of them are dead'.
I am guilty of making initial wild ass guesses before all the facts are in. In fact, in this matter, I initially posted that the shot sounded supressed, and I questioned the lack of a huge exit wound and blood splatter on the white background. I went so far as to muse aloud that it might have been a suppressed
.300 Blackout, a subsonic special forces round.
But upon further consideration of the angle Kirk was leaning over, and the downward angle of the shot, I can readily visualize the bullet path and it ending up not exiting the body.
Whatever.....
The Daily USA Mass Shooting of the Day elsewhere didn't hardly make the news.
If there wasn't school shootings in the USA,
I wouldn't even think they had schools.
HOOOOR RAHHH! Guns before edumacation! Make 'murica Great Again..BANG BANG!