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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Live tissue is not homogenous.
Organs, fat, muscle, bone, etc. each have different characteristics and elasticity.
Ballistic gelatin is fine as a generic single density test medium for most ammunition. In some cases, the terminal ballistic performance is similar to its performance in live tissue. In others, it does not appear to be. I wonder how many rounds might have been effective in live tissue, but were rejected because of their performance in gelatin. Conversely, I wonder if rounds have been selected because of their superior performance in gelatin, but did not perform to expectations in tissue.
Personally, I think live tissue should be the standard test media for bullets intended for use against live tissue. The issue is the test protocols and repeatability.
Would you test armor piercing rounds against Jell-O to determine their armor penetration as well?
TR
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Interesting you point this out TR. My old agency for the longest time carried one round because of its Gel performance. But a few of us knew of a round that worked better on people (the Win SXT +P+), we finally got the switch, and in three very similar shootings the new round out performed the old. Even though the gel data did not support it.
This made me a Gel non-believer for life.
I can understand the want from the scientific community to have a medium that can replicate tissue for evaluation purposes. But in light of gels in ability to replicate a bullets performance why has the scientific community been so resistant to changing the medium? Are the politics that bad or do the special interests have that much influence? I would think that for the betterment of the scientific community its members as a whole would be pushing for a more accurate medium.
It further seems like their are two debates present that that should be addressed separately. 1) The validity of testing in Gel vs Live Tissue, and 2) LeMas performance in Live Tissue.
If the bullet hits that hard and does that much damage great, lets pass it around! If not lets all move on to the next wonder bullet.
Just my .02 cents (from a knuckle dragger's POV)
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