Hummer70
Member
I conducted a test with a 14" barrel, 18" barrel and 20" barrel with 00 on Transtar II Targets while stationed at FLETC and they all printed 15" at 25 yards. You could lay all three targets out and if it was not written on the targets the barrel length used there was no way to distinguish pattern density between them.
Col Fackler MD of the Army Wound Ballistic Lab told me that point blank range it did not really matter that much. He was President of the International Wound Ballistics Assn and lots of good work was done. They were published for about ten years and there was nothing new to test so the Association quit publishing. The IWBA has no advertising in its Journals and the dues went to pay printing and mailing costs. No one was paid for articles.
Fackler passed about two years ago just a few weeks after I last talked with him. He was retired in Florida. His specialty in the operating theaters in Nam was bullet and shrapnel wounds. He was asked to author the NATO HANDBOOK ON WAR SURGERY Chapter on "Missile caused wounds."
A friend at the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation had all the copies and he scanned them all and put them in a cloud on the internet for all to see.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_PmkwLd1hmbd3pWYVVJeGlGaFE
For the first few years the names of the Full Members were published as you will see in the Journals above. I suggest you all download the whole file just in case some do gooder wants them removed from the internet down the road which in today's world is entirely possible.
I knew Fackler for several years before he started it and I knew it was coming and to my great surprise he presented my background to the Board and I was inducted as a full member. I almost fell out of my chair when he called me and told me to fill out the paperwork that was inbound to me. As you will see about 95% of the full members were MDs and it is for sure I am not one.
Hope you guys enjoy the reading.
Col Fackler MD of the Army Wound Ballistic Lab told me that point blank range it did not really matter that much. He was President of the International Wound Ballistics Assn and lots of good work was done. They were published for about ten years and there was nothing new to test so the Association quit publishing. The IWBA has no advertising in its Journals and the dues went to pay printing and mailing costs. No one was paid for articles.
Fackler passed about two years ago just a few weeks after I last talked with him. He was retired in Florida. His specialty in the operating theaters in Nam was bullet and shrapnel wounds. He was asked to author the NATO HANDBOOK ON WAR SURGERY Chapter on "Missile caused wounds."
A friend at the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation had all the copies and he scanned them all and put them in a cloud on the internet for all to see.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_PmkwLd1hmbd3pWYVVJeGlGaFE
For the first few years the names of the Full Members were published as you will see in the Journals above. I suggest you all download the whole file just in case some do gooder wants them removed from the internet down the road which in today's world is entirely possible.
I knew Fackler for several years before he started it and I knew it was coming and to my great surprise he presented my background to the Board and I was inducted as a full member. I almost fell out of my chair when he called me and told me to fill out the paperwork that was inbound to me. As you will see about 95% of the full members were MDs and it is for sure I am not one.
Hope you guys enjoy the reading.
