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how far did the bullet penetrate?
Ballistic gelatin has been used for decades as a test media for bullet performance because it has shown to mirror actual results in the field. It’s not perfect but it’s actually very close. There are some exact standards for mixing, temperature and calibration in the lab setting that allow for consistent data over various mixes and days of testing. I ran the testing protocols for my police agency for 6 years and we used a lot of gelatin at bidding time. You can place bones into the gel and that is a good simulation of bone in living creatures, and you can actually buy gelatin dummies with bone and organ structures molded in. It’s good stuff and you can gather a lifetime of hunting data In no time at all.How is gel an accurate test of what a bullet will do? Do yall use different kinds of gel and thicknesses or consistency to simulate hitting bone or squeezing between ribs on both sides of the critter? This is new to me and I'm ignorant on it as a newbie. Do you stick a bone in the gel to simulate a leg?
Is the 60gr a hunting load or just a testing load Larry?
What 300 grain XTP were you testing?..... For a few year I used the 0.430 version accuracy was great but stopped hunting with it due to poor expansion on deer.
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