03-07-2019, 10:23 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-07-2019, 03:39 PM by Double Naught Spy.)
BluntForceTrauma Wrote:Excellent report. Terminal ballistics is ultimately a game of averages from a large sample size. The more data, the better. Thanks for this!
Gathering data is great, but not at the sacrifice of doing the job that I am supposed to be doing. When it comes to hunting, the thing about good terminal ballistics studies is having a good, terminal animal to study.
Ballistics gel tests are cool and hueristically interesting, and are probably the best simulant deriving consistent and replicable results. The problem I see with ballistics gel is one of its strongest points. It shows a temporary stretch/wound cavity because of strain failure (stretched to the point of failure), and yet you can easily push your fingers right through the side of a block of gel to retrieve a bullet, which is something that you cannot do with most animal soft tissue. Try pushing your fingers through pork or deer shoulder muscle. Ballistics gel fails differently than muscle and organ tissue. It has amorphous structure, probably most closely resembling nearly amorphous body fat. You can sometimes push your fingers through hog fat, though it still appears much tougher to do than ballistics gel. After reading countless articles on ballistics gel, I am still wondering if it doesn't do a better job of showing bullet performance IN gel as opposed to showing bullet performance ON tissue.
My point? I think the gel video may have exaggerated the potential tissue impact by Wolf MC on animal tissue.
Djgrendel Wrote:Once again, great vid. Based on crosshair it's a dead pig running. I've never had vitally hit game, run that far. Is that the 2 moa people keep asking about? Just kidding. Or am I? We may never know. Granted it has worked, but I doubt its consistency. Thanks for trying DNS!
Dead? Probably, but when and where? Will it be by suffocation, exsanguination, or infection? I don't know about 2 MOA, but I get about 1.25 MOA from this rifle.
Kill a hog. Save the planet.
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