Energy, Momentum and Taylor KO calculator
The "Taylor KO formula" was developed by John Taylor. John Talyor was an extremely experienced
African hunter, his formula was based on killing thousands of large game animals with nearly any
caliber you can imagine. This formula is designed to give you a relative "killing power" number
for a given caliber, the higher the number the better. For example the 44 Magnum, which most
handgunners consider an acceptable hunting caliber, with its standard 240gr load gets a
Taylor KO of 20. A fairly typical 454 Casull 300gr load gets a 30, your standard 12 gage shotgun
slug load gets a 53.
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