deerslayer303
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Are these tests reliable? I understand that it is the only thing we have to test how different rounds or cartridges compare to one another. But here is why I pose the question. On the tube you have guys using different percentages of ballistics gelatin usually 10 and 20%. Is the 20% more dense than the 10. What about the clear vs. tan colored gel? The reason I ask is because seems to me the guys using the 20% seem to get better bullet performance, as in expansion and shock, vs. the guys that use the 10%. I believe a bullet needs something more dense than gel to open up? Judging by all my years of hunting critters the times that the animal was shot in the shoulder/ boiler room the bullet opened right up vs. the times the animal may have been shot further back on it's body where less bone and dense muscle tissue resided. In the later the exit would be not as big as the animal that had been shot in the boiler room.