What Ballistic Gelatin Tests Teach Us If you study and understand the material in this report, you may well have more true, real knowledge of terminal ballistics than most coroners, police, and many physicians. Ballistic gelatin tests are significant because they teach by what mechanics bullets cause the damage that they do. In other words, if we understand what the ballistics gelatin shows us, we can understand by what means a bullet actually debilitates or kills a person. When we know why and how the presence of the bullet in the body shuts down or destroys what it shuts down or destroys, we finally have some real understanding of handgun stopping power. When we then compare the calibers and bullet designs for them against the scientific, "normalized" standard of ballistics gelatin, then match that data to documented real-life shootings, we have an even BETTER reference considering how different calibers and types of bullet perform in a life-or-death situation. 14 www.BulletproofDefenseDVD.com Consider the typical "wound track" of a nine millimeter +P (+P means Pressure; such bullets are more powerful than non +P bullets) 100 grain bullet. (Grain refers to the weight of the bullet itself within the cartridge.) Such a bullet creates a "cloud" in a block of ballistic gelatin representing the wound it creates, then stops without exiting the gelatin block. If the bullet goes straight through the block, whatever energy it has when it exits the ballistic gelatin is wasted as far as stopping power is concerned.
Report - Stopping Power
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