Posted: 1/2/2010 7:22:16 AM EDT
| Hey guys i was curios if there is any interesting way to test different hollow points (.40)? Obviously Ballistics gel and cartons full of water are the classic methods but Iv heard of people using soaking wet phone books to test expansion and im assuming theres lots of different "Home" tests that can be done. Im not trying to do any scientific testing of duty ammo or anything like that i just thought it would be fun to test some different loads to see what theyll do. Thanks |
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Ballistic Gel testing reflect the Closest Performance that you can expect when the same load is fired into flesh…
None of the other media have ever been able to do this. So you cannot really draw any conclusion if you are using other media… For example, if I am testing 44 mag for hunting and I use a sandbox and then water bottles. What do I really know at the end of the day that I can translate into a boar or grizzly load??? Now if I am going after fish or trophy earthworms… I might have some important data??? In the end you will have, at best, a causal indication of how well various loads perform in a particular media… But little else. But if that satisfies your curiousity, go for it. |
| Thanks for the info. I guess i didnt think of sand.. I wonder if shooting into fine sand with an HP would expand the round and leave it intact.. Im trying to figure out a good media to shoot where i could find the expanded hollow point after shooting it. I dont have Ballistics gel available so iv tried large jugs of water but the bullets seem to rip apart and you can never find them back. I know if you use FMJ rounds and shoot a thin steel plate (slightly thicker than the round will puncture) the round will be balled up in the dent but HP's don't work for this. |
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Back in about 1996, I went to a local slaughter house and got a big box of pork scraps, shoulder and rib bones. $20 bought about 50 lbs.
I hung it in a sack made from a t-shirt, wrapped it in an old denim jacket and shot the hell out of it. I couldn't tell any difference between the holes made with .45 230gr Black Talons or the ones made with 9mm 147gr Black Talons. I still prefer .45, but that's when I got off the 9mm vs 45 bandwagon. |