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drivethatglock	using water to catch bullets...	Lead	[-]
Posts: 46 (07/04/09 11:31:44) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None anybody have any good suggestions on how to "catch" bullets to see their expansion, etc....4 or 5 milk jugs full of water???? wanna do some hands on comparison of different PD loads... Glenn G
Glockster		#1	[-]
Posts: 29 (07/04/09 12:40:48) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I have a friend who does this periodically, he has told me that out of everything he has tested nothing has gone through more than 7 milk jugs. He has also used wet newspaper stacked in a cardboard box, it also seems to work well but it creates a little more of a mess to clean up. hope this is of some help. Don.
gsbell		#2	[-]
Posts: 306 (07/04/09 19:06:20) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Water jugs will not reproduce the expansion that you would see in tissue Greg
gsbell		#3	[-]
Posts: 307 (07/04/09 19:15:35) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Balistic gelatin is a commonly accepted medium for bullet testing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_gelatin http://www.myscienceproject.org/gelatin.html http://www.customcartridge.com/pdfs/BallisticGel.pdf Greg Last Edited By: gsbell 07/04/09 19:29:02. Edited 1 times.
freeidaho		#4	[-]
Posts: 3148 (07/04/09 19:25:30) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	The box of truth has done some interestng tests... http://www.theboxotruth.com/ Ken Reed
HiPowering Along	Go to the grocery store...	#5	[-]
Posts: 413 (07/04/09 20:06:03) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Remember the hullabaloo with the sinister "Black Talon" loads by Winchester years ago? I wanted to see what they expanded to, and found the perfect medium in my dad's garden (just don't tell my mother that her lunch was used for ballistics testing!) Two eggplants (the purple oversized pear shaped thingies that taste like crap, no matter what you do to them) lined up one behind the other, and two metro phonebooks for a backstop. Put Federal Hydrashocks into the top half of the veggie, and the Talons into the bottom of the veggies. Perfect expansion and no loss of metal (appreciably) that I could detect. The Black Talon petaled out perfectly - and if I can find it again, I'll post a pic. And for those that have never seen one in that condition, it's one mean mudder trucker of a round to do damage to the internals when applied properly in a defensive situation... A fitting use for a lousy tasting vegetable. --Cindy "You know, some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints...." "Happiness is a warm, smoking barrel..." Last Edited By: HiPowering Along 07/04/09 20:09:37. Edited 2 times.
Steve Koski		#6	[-]
Posts: 833 (07/05/09 14:27:31) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	DTG - Water filled milk jugs stop most JHP's in the third jug, so if you line up 4 (or 5) you'll stop a JHP unless it comes out the side. With FMJ's, all bets are off, they can go through a LOT of milk jugs. Koski
drivethatglock		#7	[-]
Posts: 47 (07/06/09 10:40:11) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	10-4...thanks for all the suggestions everyone. Glenn G
detonicscustom	just my two cents	#8	[-]
Posts: 94 (07/06/09 16:39:40) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Don't use a 32 gallon trash can filled mostly with water. They don't all stop, most certainly don't do this with it inside sitting on the floor of your "gun room." Robert Ray IDPA HQ "This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog." ~Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.
Steve Koski		#9	[-]
Posts: 840 (07/06/09 18:01:35) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Best is if you have a pool in your backyard, and you don't live in the city. Koski
HiPowering Along		#10	[-]
Posts: 414 (07/06/09 20:32:43) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Steve Koski wrote: Best is if you have a pool in your backyard, and you don't live in the city. Koski Uh, might want to rethink that one - bullets are known to skip off water and if it's not a 'cee-ment pond', you might have a larger variation of the 32 gallon trash can Robert eluded to..... --Cindy "You know, some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints...." "Happiness is a warm, smoking barrel..."
drivethatglock		#11	[-]
Posts: 48 (07/07/09 06:38:51) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	robert i would love to have been there when that "hold my beer and watch this" experiment took place....hahahaha Glenn G
Gregg Kratochvil		#12	[-]
Posts: 363 (07/07/09 07:58:27) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	detonicscustom wrote: Don't use a 32 gallon trash can filled mostly with water. They don't all stop, most certainly don't do this with it inside sitting on the floor of your "gun room." I sense that there is a story here, was there a mop and a bucket involved.
Steve Koski		#13	[-]
Posts: 841 (07/07/09 12:37:45) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Cindy, In olden times, folks shot bullets into pools all the time. Use the deep end, shoot straight in. Diving boards help. I agree that a kiddy pool would be a poor choice. Koski
Bexar Dave		#14	[-]
Posts: 110 (07/07/09 12:38:48) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Gregg Kratochvil wrote: detonicscustom wrote: Don't use a 32 gallon trash can filled mostly with water. They don't all stop, most certainly don't do this with it inside sitting on the floor of your "gun room." I sense that there is a story here, was there a mop and a bucket involved. He's a pretty tech savvy guy. I suspect it was a wetvac! Story please! Dave Wallace Member in Good Standing Merry Band of Agitators
Matt M		#15	[-]
Posts: 140 (07/07/09 20:28:44) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	you must be bored.... Matt McArthur
drivethatglock		#16	[-]
Posts: 49 (07/08/09 06:36:51) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Matt M wrote: you must be bored.... never...just want to try something for a little knowledge. Glenn G
Steve Koski		#17	[-]
Posts: 842 (07/08/09 08:42:21) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Blasting milk jugs is great fun, and educational too. If you've never done it, start saving them and go do it! Koski

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