Cheapshooter
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5pins, keep up the excellent work with the ammo tests. Those who have been here on TFL for a long time get it, and appreciate your efforts.
No. Not a childish comment. But, the comment has as much relevance as shooting a bullet into a block of gelatin to determine the ability to stop a human target. Of all the things that can be said about the human body - that it is a homogenous block of gelatin it not one of them
I've always read, for quite some time now, that it's the CLOSEST we have, in getting a good idea, on how a bullet will perform in the human body.Sorry Brother, but you clearly need to get educated in this subject.
Gel has NEVER been intended to simulate a human target. It simply gives us a duplicatable way to compare one bullet against another. So the gel is made to a specific recipe, shot at a certain temp and the results are compared to other bullets shot into the same recipe at the same temp.
The “FBI protocol” has a number of intervening barriers place in the bullets path before impacting the get. Light clothing, heavy clothing, plywood, sheet metal, auto glass...
Again, This just gives us a way to see how those barriers effect the bullets ability to still expand after passing thru them.
Only designed to give us an apples to apples comparison of performance. NOT show what will happen when a bulet passes through all the varies structures of the human body
I've always read, for quite some time now, that it's the CLOSEST we have, in getting a good idea, on how a bullet will perform in the human body.
Do you know of anything that would be better?5pins - Cheapshooter- It's comical to watch you guys do google searches and draw conclusions never stated to justify being jello believers.
Fact - there is NO substrate that can approximate, air, bone, liquid and tissue simultaneously.
Fact - there is NO place on the human body that is monolithic or homogenous for 14-20" unless you're obese
Fact - nobody wears 4 layers of denim - further evidence of how outdated the test really is
Fact - because of the above, jello testing will not give any clue as to how a bullet will perform hitting a human body, how it expands, how much it penetrates.
Yes, it will go down as being as worthless as shooting into water and wet newsprints.
Maybe next time you can make the jello in cherry flavor?
Do you know of anything that would be better?
People who make this kind of statements typically don't understand or don't want to understand.
...In your mom nd I'm sure some insunificant amateurs complaint d with owning a bar!
Do you know of anything that would be better?