Paper penetration to flesh penetration

[lazyeye]

160lbs Pig like the Illanois State Police.

 

[Shawn Dodson]

One method: Estimating Handgun Hollowpoint Bullet Penetration Using the MacPherson Water Test Method

Another method:

A Simple Method for Testing Bullets with Your Guns

A quick and easy method to determine bullet or shotshell performance out of any handgun or shotgun is to gather several (and we mean several -- about 30) cardboard half-gallon milk cartons (plastic won't do).

Fill them full of water, line them up side-by-side three abreast, in three rows of 10 (each carton should be in contact with its neighbor). Back-up several feet and shoot a bullet from your handgun into the center row of cartons.

Count the number of water filled cartons the bullet penetrated, including the carton where the bullet came to rest. Multiply the number of cartons times 2.5 to determine penetration depth in inches. This will give you a SWAG (scientific wild-arse gauge) of how your gun/cartridge combination will perform in soft tissue (both bullet expansion and penetration).

The data obtained and averaged from three test shots should give you a fairly accurate SWAG. Remember to observe all safety rules when handling your firearm.

Finally, Fackler suggests an even easier method: a water filled container, such as a cardboard milk/juice carton, to produce bullet expansion, a box densely filled with polyester pillow batting to catch the bullet without damage, and a chronograph. Fire the bullet through the water filled container and recover it from the batting. Use MacPherson's book to determine penetration using velocity and expansion data.

 

[Hook686]

Steves pages

http://stevespages.com/page8f.htm

provides data on a number of handgun rounds fired into water jugs. If you did same, then looked for similar results you might get an idea of other handguns it compares to.

Then go to the terminal effects forum at the


http://www.tacticalforums.com/


, or similar, and look at the ballistic jello data for those calibers/cartriges and figure that your .32 long will be roughly equivilent to that data in ballistic gel.