Just went back to edit my post...LOL I know nothing about guns...LOL
Hubby found this website to answer my question to him...he says I need a new hobby...LOL
http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-291094.html
I did some googling while I was typing up my last post. I found some interesting studies on the "Deep Blue at the University of Michigan" site.
The study was done on femur bones (the strongest bones in the human body) with steel balls of .25 an inch diameter.
I was amazed. The bone was shattered and "completely separated the distal end from the shaft" at only 51.1 ft-lbs! The photograph makes me queezy just looking at it.
It also took less then 10 ft-lbs to put neat little round holes all the way through the bone. Anything less had a chance of getting stuck in the bone. But 10 ft-lbs is nothing.
The density of the bone had almost no effect either. They tested osteoporotic bones as well as normal ones.
This proves that a 22lr from any barrel has more then enough strength to pass through a femur and would not have any trouble passing through the weaker skull.
It seems that many people in this forum highly underestimate the power of their firearms.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?