A projectile that makes a big wound channel paired with good shot placement will take them every time. There is no actual knockdown power when that muzzy or rage broad head rips through. I'm thinking my 60# draw compound has less knock down power than the 160# draw crossbow and for sure less than any gun in the safe but a 3rd of the animals I've taken have fallen to it. Some of the longest tracking jobs were from rifle shots using ballistic tip bullets where little to no blood trail was found. The old compound bow always made it easy to find game with some nasty blood trails. I'd like for the game to drop where it stands but even with a rifle it doesn't always happen.

I have seen on hogs and armadillos where you shoot it falls and gets right back up so you have to shoot it again

Happens to all the hogs and coyotes I shoot with my 12 gauge and 300 gr slugs. The sound of that slug hitting them makes me smile.

total BS as far as I am concerned
shot placement, bullet selection, distance and impact velocity are what matters.

I use redneck logic.
Would you rather be shot in the chest with a 9mm or a 44 mag?

the potato gun would actually have the surface area and mass to displace enough energy to knock you down.

Or bean bag gun

Same thing for a kid in an electric Escalade. What's your point?

That I just came up with my first YouTube video....

Can you come help me with an electrical engineering project? Might want to wear a cup, I’m a terrible shot

Everyone who believes a 150 pound animal on four legs is going to get literally knocked over by an object weighing less than a half ounce needs to revisit high school physics.

Here's what someone needs to do. Take a life sized deer decoy, strap an AR500 target to it, add enough extra weight to make it realistic, then back off and start blasting away with your favorite deer rifle. Be sure to video the results.

Did you just call him an EE?

Next you'll call him a longhorn.

Yes, you have to play to his ego to get him to commit. Install a false sense of confidence.

If you want you can shoot him with the bean bag when he gets back up. We need to reconfirm results.

Take a 3/4oz bass jig and sling it at a passing jet skier's head and see if it knocks him off. I know it will.

Ego huh? I'm not the THF clown with 42K+ posts now am I?

Speaking of knockdown power...

He is a 6’6 all -conference College olineman, trust me

You want to see knockdown show him a spider and he will flip an M1 tank trying to get away from it. Oh put your ear plugs in, he screams also