Does it do 50hp per torso shot? or 60hp?
How much damage does the K43 do?
Look at this (its part of the Return to Castle Wolfenstein 4 Dummies website):

Now we only need rate of fire and reload times to start discussing damage/time graphical representations and start crying for inbalances. 
Gun shots per clip Starting ammo Max Ammo Reload mid clip?
garand 8 24 32 NO
k43 10 30 40 YES
Each shot from these guns does the same damage, but with the K43 you start with more, can hold more, can fire more per clip, and if you fire a few shots at someone, you get to reload! not shoot the rest of the clip into the sky to reload…
They evened the thompson/mp40, and they should even these two. Its moronic that the axis get far better rifles;/
This is why I only play covert ops when I’m on the axis side. That K43 is an excellent all around gun if you can keep your cool and aim it during firefights. If I had to play covert ops as allied I’d probably end up using the FG42, which is unfortunatly a poor compromise.
RK
Head shots with the zoomed in garand or k43 do not always kill. Due to the fact that you can get more then 100 health at higher levels and with medics on your team or being a medic. The k43 and garand only do 100 damage with head shots (helmet on or off doesn’t matter) so a medic will always survive a head shot (unless prebiously wounded…)