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Hollow point vs ballistics gel






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8 Responses to “Hollow point vs ballistics gel”

  1. weasel Says:
    November 12th, 2007 at 4:25 pm

    wow, that definitely looked like it would hurt, it turned that block of ballistics gel into a balloon! What was that shoot out of??

  2. MILITANTPLATYPUS Says:
    November 12th, 2007 at 4:27 pm

    Unfortunately, the site I got the video from is in Dutch, and I don’t have a translator for Dutch.

  3. boomshanka Says:
    November 12th, 2007 at 11:13 pm

    wow. hollow points ay… no block of gel is gonna get away from that.

  4. Aarok Says:
    November 13th, 2007 at 12:26 am

    well… where is the site by the way.???I use ‘http://babelfish.altavista.com’ and it does an alright job of translating most web pages depending on the language anyway

  5. RapidEye Says:
    November 13th, 2007 at 5:26 am

    That actually wasn’t as impressive as it could have been!!!
    Hollow points are designed to expand and NOT penetrate.
    That bullet was moving too fast for the gel or else it would have stopped somewhere inside of it – then you really would have seen that gel expand (absorbing all that energy stopping the bullet).

    Watching the video a few times, I’d guess that was some sort of Spitzer point, not a hollow point. Most hollow points would have expanded more. Spitzer points are a derivative of the hollow point – ment to expand some (controllably) but still penetrate. You commonly use them on big game where you need both penetration to hit vital organs and knock down power to keep them from running away.

    I grew up hunting varmits, small game, and big game with a .25-06 You really have to be careful with bullet selection or else you can turn that nice BIG rabbit dinner into fajita scraps! =-)

  6. evenmadderdawg Says:
    November 13th, 2007 at 8:52 am

    I’m surprised by how fast that bullet is spinning. I know barrels are “rifled” to impart spin and therefore improve flight stability or whatever, but that sucker is really turning!

  7. MILITANTPLATYPUS Says:
    November 13th, 2007 at 9:06 am

    At the bottom of the post, you will see a ‘via’. When I can attribute a source I do so with that. There is a link to the source at the bottom of this post.

  8. Djj2 Says:
    November 13th, 2007 at 11:35 am

    It looks like it originally came from “College Humor.com” They are not real big on detailed explaination.
    Check out their other vids in “Slow Motion Frenzy’ http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1723771

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