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I've knocked a couple deer down with a .50 cal M.L. before. They were close, and they were fairly little, but it still knocked them down.
They fell over, not the same thing as knocking them over. I understand what you mean, I shot a deer that walked right under my stand
from a few feet away with a 7mm rem mag and he fell over like he was hit by a truck, but he just toppled over from the sudden injury, there were not enough force pounds to actually knock him over-but it sure looked dramatic.
When it spins them around 180*'s and 2-3 feet from the way they were when I squeezed the trigger I would call it knocking them down. Especially when the slug impacts both shoulder blades at 5 yards on a 60 lb doe. I've shot deer with everything from a bow to a .223 to a 30-06 so I'm familiar with them just "falling over".
I guess it all comes down to debating the difference between toppling over and being knocked down. If a deer is on the move then its momentum will carry it a ways too and that could be confused into the equation.
For the sake of the argument at hand, a bullet will not knock someone down, I realize this. Especially a fast round, it typically moves through the target too quickly and is too small in diameter.
However, (and I'm not a scientist OR very good at math) there certainly must be a point at which surface area of the bullet itself, the size (weight, density) of the target being shot and the velocity of the round would in fact knock something or someone over. ie: if you shot a squirrel with a cannonball...