Ballistic Gel

Bazooka Joe71 · Nov 17, 2006

I did a little research the other day, on how to make some semi-cheap ballistics gel to do a test on what some of the different calibers would do, and also different JHP's.

I was just wondering if anyone has done this, and if so do you have any pictures?

thanks guys.

Lupinus · Nov 17, 2006

I've shot jello molds a few times....does that count? :evil:

EventHorizon · Nov 18, 2006

Perhaps obviously, those chunks were not big enough to retain the bullets so no pics of the slugs are available.

We did the same thing with various hollow point pistol caliber rounds (.38 special+p, .357 mag, 9mm, .40S&W and 45ACP) fired through 2 big gel blocks, placed back to back, with interesting results. The .38+p, 9mm and .40S&W slugs were all retained in the second block, with the .40s just barely remaining in the gel. The .45ACP was either retained in the first block OR bounced off the second block and came back towards the shooter for significant distances. The .357 mags slugs, of course, disappeared into the dirt berm after sailing through both chunks of gel. We never got around to taking any photos of the pistol caliber slugs we managed to retrieve so, sorry, no pics of those.

Bazooka Joe71 · Nov 20, 2006

Thanks for the photo's Eventhorizon!

Anybody happen to have anymore?

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