Gaznazdiak wrote:Still on the pentetrating question of terminal performance, has anybody tried making ballistics gel from ordinary gelatin?
Did it work?
Any special tricks?
Was it clear enough to be worth th effort?
After reading straightshooter's post I would like to test the destabilisation vs penetration assertion.
BTW, nothing remotely soft or mild about the steel half of these cores, I broke 2 HSS drill bits without doing more than putting a tiny shiny dot on the end.
After reading your post last night I tried to do a longitudinal cut on one of these projectiles with a jeweller's saw. Cut through the jacket tip OK and made a slight start on the insert but the saw teeth very quickly became dull and stopped cutting.
Looks like I had a misapprehension about the actual material of the insert although I vaguely remember doing much the same thing 25 years ago and being able to cut through it.
Your steel plate tests are interesting and no doubt fun, as would be ballistic gel tests, but they don't tell you what you really want to know. That is how they perform on real living breathing moving ballistic gel.