seeker_two
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My comment about being attacked by a bucket of water was meant to be humorous.
I'm glad....I'd hate to see someone talk about opening fire in response to being attacked by a bucket of water seriously...
My comment about being attacked by a bucket of water was meant to be humorous.
next to shot placement, the best ammo is very important
You guys needed to watch MythBusters when they blew their test tank apart with a 12ga.Shooting off a step ladder, straight down into an open 5 gal. bucket resulted in a split bucket on several sides !
Prior to the 1987 FBI Wound Ballistics Workshop most ammunition manufactures tested their ammunition in water tanks. This gave two inaccurate results......penetration and expansion. Human tissue is not 100% water, and shooting into the human body means that a bullet that expands well in water may not expand well in tissue. Hollow points that were designed around the water tank(around 1967-1987) suffered either expansion problems(heavier bullet weights at lower velocities), or weak penetration(light and fast bullet weights). Then of course there was no standardized method to determine adequate levels of penetration. It was for these reasons that we had spectacular ammunition failures such as that of Jerry Dove in 1986 which got him killed. Ballistic gel is MUCH more consistant with tissue and has been an excellent media for testing ammunition and getting similar results to that of real world effects.