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Are we too critical of modern bullets?
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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Courtney" data-source="post: 907833" data-attributes="member: 28191"><p>Right, but hitting soft tissue will give the most conservative estimate of reliable minimum velocity required for expansion. This is easily simulated with ballistic gelatin. Handgun bullet makers would not dream of claiming expansion for loads which did not even expand in ballistic gelatin, but the makers of hunting bullets do it all the time. </p><p></p><p>It would be a simple matter to test every design in ballistic gelatin and publish the lowest velocity to reliably achieve 50% expansion over the original diameter. But this would tend to produce higher minimum expansion velocities than have been published for many bullets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael Courtney, post: 907833, member: 28191"] Right, but hitting soft tissue will give the most conservative estimate of reliable minimum velocity required for expansion. This is easily simulated with ballistic gelatin. Handgun bullet makers would not dream of claiming expansion for loads which did not even expand in ballistic gelatin, but the makers of hunting bullets do it all the time. It would be a simple matter to test every design in ballistic gelatin and publish the lowest velocity to reliably achieve 50% expansion over the original diameter. But this would tend to produce higher minimum expansion velocities than have been published for many bullets. [/QUOTE]
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