Doubts about gelatin shooting

[Elmer]

You mean Cor Bon +P+P+P+P+ isn't the best choice? I heard the goats would pass out and die when they were just shown an empty box of Cor Bon...........

 

[svtruth]

Lies, Damned lies, and statistics

Gelatin tests could be related to each other if they included a "standard round". Then all you have to do is determine round x penetrated 75% of teh standard in this test, round y penetrated 85% of standard round in this other test. Then you have a comparison of x and y wothout needing to know conc of gelatin, temp, phase of moon, etc.
Regarding stopping power, somewhere I read a paper on likelihood of of a one shot stop of a human based on law enforcement files. #1 was .357 followed closely (and not statistically significantly differently) bu the .45.

 

[Elmer]

That's called calibration, something that all legitimate wound ballistic people use. It's done with a BB, at a known velocity.

The guy who probably wrote the gun magazine article, where you got the mythical best "one shot stop" info from, was shown to be a fraud. One of the reasons was, he never calibrated his gelatin. None of his testing could be reproduced by the wound ballistic community.

 

[Elmer]

Not a single picture of a smiling person holding a recovered 4.9mm Hottentot Rimless UberShort Rimfire Magnum short-jacketed, hollow point spitzer, bonded tri-metal non-toxic, boat-tail gas-check bullet perfectly mushroomed to .986 caliber?

You, BluesBear, are one funny dude!

 

[BluesBear]

Thank you.

It's a sickness.