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06-22-2022, 02:53 PM | #13 | ||||||
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What I have been wondering about with the ballistics gel though it says its only stable up to 95F so I would have to find a way to keep it cool during testing. I am more interested in how different shot sizes react to striking bone which doing some rough math plywood is around 50% the density of bone so im now wondering if say a 1" plywood sheet would be similar if a projectile hit 1/2" of bone just as a example.
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06-22-2022, 05:46 PM | #14 | ||||||
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the one inch plwwood should do for testing for penertration test.....I read a book on wild fowling and they used plywood for there tests...they used the 8 ga and 4 ga guns for testing....seems like the name of the book was the esturary....it was a british book....I believe tom armbrust wrote in his book about it not sure....charlie
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06-22-2022, 06:13 PM | #16 | ||||||
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Charlie I think the Army used to use 1" pine boards for ballistic testing with the 45/70 they figured if it can punch through the board at X range then its still carrying enough energy to be lethal to a enemy. I want to say it would still go through the pine board at 3200 yards or something like that of course there was no accuracy at that range but a interesting study on the practicality of long range volley fire etc.
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06-22-2022, 06:49 PM | #17 | ||||||
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Milt, if you have a local butcher or processor near you they may be able to supply you with bones for testing?
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06-22-2022, 07:56 PM | #18 | ||||||
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Mike’s idea of using bones from a processing plant sounds like the way to go. You could mix your own ballistic gel and mold the bones into the gel to get a better idea of the penetration thru both soft tissue and bone.
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06-22-2022, 08:27 PM | #19 | ||||||
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I was thinking about this earlier since we do have quite a few places locally that process game meat I could mold it inside the ballistics gel probably as close as accurate you could get besides field testing. I read for geese you want around 2.5" of gel penetration but thats just for hitting vital organs I want to see what it takes to get a complete pass through.
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06-23-2022, 11:35 AM | #20 | ||||||
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the dark estuary was the name of that book....wish I could get a copy of this book...charlie
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