Post by maxcactus on Oct 20, 2009 20:24:14 GMT -5
For those who haven't seen this yet, it's a 10 minute long video of various projectiles impacting different media from steel to ballistic gelatin to glass. The video was shot in super slow-motion (1,000,000 frames/second). Truly remarkable so see how the bullets behave on impact. I recommend turning the volume down/off to avoid the offensive background "music".
What I find most fascinating is the fact that we can now see definitively what was mostly speculation only a few years ago. Several slugs can be seen shattering completely on impact, many are shown expanding in gelatin, others actually skid across glass. Of interest to me was one @ time index 5:06 - a rifle projectile hitting a block of gelatin @ something like a 60 degree angle - comes out base first on the back end of the block. The Barnes TSX projectiles appear every bit as effective as I've read/heard them to be.
Enjoy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfDoQwIAaXg&feature=player_embedded
Max.
What I find most fascinating is the fact that we can now see definitively what was mostly speculation only a few years ago. Several slugs can be seen shattering completely on impact, many are shown expanding in gelatin, others actually skid across glass. Of interest to me was one @ time index 5:06 - a rifle projectile hitting a block of gelatin @ something like a 60 degree angle - comes out base first on the back end of the block. The Barnes TSX projectiles appear every bit as effective as I've read/heard them to be.
Enjoy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfDoQwIAaXg&feature=player_embedded
Max.
