Colonel Finck. This depends to a great extent on the type of ammunition used. There are many types of bullets, jacketed, not-jacketed, pointed, hollow-nosed, hollow-points, flat-nose, round-nose, all these different shapes will have a different influence on the pattern of the wound and the degree of fragmentation.
Representative Ford. That is all.
The Chairman. Thank you, Colonel, very much for your help.
Colonel Finck. You are welcome, sir.
Representative Ford. May I ask just one question?
The Chairman. Yes; Colonel, we would like to ask just one more question.
Representative Ford. Do these two wounds represent the same or a different kind of bullet?
Colonel Finck. You are referring to one wound and this other wound here?
Representative Ford. I am referring to the wound shown in Exhibit 388 identified as point of entry A, and wound in Exhibit 385 identified as C.
Colonel Finck. Due to the difference in the nature of the tissue, difference in the nature of the target, it is perfectly possible that these two wounds came from the same type of bullet, that one hit bony structures and the other one did not, and that explains the differences between the patterns of these two wounds.