You WANT your bullet to stay in your target, in other words. In ballistic gelatin, you want the bullet to remain within the block so that ALL of its energy is spent in the target (in this case, your opponent's body). When Powerful Bullets Don't Count Despite the fact that you want your bullets to stay within the opponent, many "experts" measure what they call the "penetration depth" in various media as an indicator of how well the bullet will stop an attacker. 15 www.BulletproofDefenseDVD.com They reason that the more a bullet penetrates, the more power it has. Strictly speaking, this is true. In other words, it's true on paper. The more energy the bullet has when it moves through the target, the deeper it penetrates. That's simple physics.
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