How does your ammo do against ballistic gel? check this out!

[1911Operator]

hey guys, I stumbled into this website that tests a big varriety of ammo from large calibers to small ones. different makes, weights, and velocities. on the left you can find your caliber and check out what it does to some ballistic gel! here it is:

http://www.brassfetcher.com/Gel%20Testing.html

[himurax13]

Hmm, maybe we could pitch in and get more tests done. I would be interested on how hard cast lead performs especially the following:

9mm
100g Round nose @ 1300 fps
122g Flat points @ 1150 fps
125g Round Nose @ 1100 fps
147g Round Nose @ 950 fps
147g Flat Point @ 950 fps

.40 S&W
135g Truncated Cone @ 1150 fps
180g Truncated Cone @ 1050 fps

.45 acp
155g SWC @ 1100 fps
185g SWC @ 1000 fps
200g SWC @ 800 fps
200g SWC @ 925 fps
230g Round Nose @ 850 fps

[OneSevenDeuce]

Cor Bon Powerball seems to have pretty good penetration with a large wound channel. I have been wondering about the performance of these rounds. Nice.

[zfields]

Cant say from personal experience, but if I remember correctly the big Dr Roberts testing rated the powerball pretty badly.

No offence to the testing website, but the Roberts report seems to be a little more indepth.

*edit* http://ammo.ar15.com/project/Self_De..._FAQ/index.htm found the link.

*edit again* was mistaken, he does NOT mention the power ball ammo.

Cor Bon Powerball seems to have pretty good penetration with a large wound channel. I have been wondering about the performance of these rounds. Nice.

[lugar]

Great info. Thanks for posting it.

[OneSevenDeuce]

Cant say from personal experience, but if I remember correctly the big Dr Roberts testing rated the powerball pretty badly.

No offence to the testing website, but the Roberts report seems to be a little more indepth.

*edit* http://ammo.ar15.com/project/Self_De..._FAQ/index.htm found the link.

*edit again* was mistaken, he does NOT mention the power ball ammo.

I was about to ask where it was. I didn't see anything on it. lol

[zfields]

sorry, mouth ( or fingers? ) moving faster then mind.

[Katana]

Hmm, maybe we could pitch in and get more tests done. I would be interested on how hard cast lead performs especially the following:

9mm
100g Round nose @ 1300 fps
122g Flat points @ 1150 fps
125g Round Nose @ 1100 fps
147g Round Nose @ 950 fps
147g Flat Point @ 950 fps

.40 S&W
135g Truncated Cone @ 1150 fps
180g Truncated Cone @ 1050 fps

.45 acp
155g SWC @ 1100 fps
185g SWC @ 1000 fps
200g SWC @ 800 fps
200g SWC @ 925 fps
230g Round Nose @ 850 fps

I think it's safe to say all those listed loads would penetrate all the way through the gel blocks generating near caliber size permanent cavities.

[mif_slim]

dood, give me 50 bux and I will test all your guys ammo! lol. I can make ballistic gelitan just kinda expensive.

[RolinThundr]

Someone posted some time ago about a website that tested penetration, I think through common types of walls, of different ammo, anyone have that website. I'd like to compare the results of that one with this gel testing one.