Armor, Hit locations, and math Options

[Crusher Bob]

Since I don't think it's come up on the new boards, and I didn't want to get involved on the firearms thread, here's some stuff about armor, hit locations and other interesting bits:

First question? If we wanted to make a random hit table, what percentages should we use for each location of the body?

Surveillance for Fatal and Nonfatal Firearm-Related Injuries --- United States, 1993--1998
Gives the following approximate hit location percentages for non fatal shootings (assault/intervention type) in the US as:

arm 0.13
leg 0.33
head 0.14
torso 0.21
abdomen 0.16
undetermined 0.03

Our next step is to distribute the undetermined 3% into the other areas, so we don't have to deal with it later. This gives:

arm 0.134
leg 0.34
head 0.144
torso 0.217
abdomen 0.165

But this data only accounts for non-fatal shootings, how do we account for the fatal ones?

An Analysis of Wound Statistics in Relation to Personal Ballistic Protection (pdf file)

Tells us that, during the Vietnam war, hits with small arms fire in the following areas had the following chance to be fatal:

arm 0.01 (rounded up to 1%)
leg 0.05
head 0.7
torso 0.51
abdomen 0.4

assuming 1000 non-fatal shootings, we then go on to use the above numbers to determine the number of fatal shootings that would have hit the same location