Can any body help please.

I am thinking of producing a display of the mushrooming effect/breakup effect that bullet types and velocities have on animals.

I need some kind of media that will replicate animal tissue and also 'catch' projectiles safely. I am sure I have read somewhere about a method to make such a media - but cannot remember where.

Anybody recommend anything????

Regards Richard

Howdy: I did a Google search and came up with the following link:

http://www.myscienceproject.org/gelatin.html

just type that into a search engine and it should come up. You can buy a kit at Cabela's, but I doubt you'll find one in the United Kingdom. Good Luck ... Tom Purdom

What is needed to stop a 243, 308 bullets?

Could go through some harder material first.

a couple of phone books or a wooden log

Water. A swimming pool with a deep diving end works fine, as will a 55gallon drum of water and a ladder.

Old phone books and newspapers have been used for years, and still work fine.

Ballistic gelatin is probably the best. Can be melted down and reused.

I agree with eddieharren.

"the bullet tube"

midway

jeffe

I'm sure you could take up a collection of ex-wives from the fellows on this site. They'd make great testing media and be doing a public service.
Jim

I like the idea of the ballistic gel, would think it is very visual, but how much is needed to stop a 150 grain bullet at 2700 fps?

Thinking about a length of gutter filled with gel?

Any thoughts?

Those guys on "Myth Busters" did it in ballistics Gel. A 9mm pistol went about 6 feet, a 30/06 barely went 2 feet.

Rich

Cabela's has a kit the company is selling for $200 including a roaster to melt the gel. It shows one block of the stuff illustrating the wound channel and in the info below it shows a block as being 5x5x17. I would imagine two of these blocks stacked end to end should do the trick. Ther kit that Cabela's sells is fairly expensive. I think the homemade stuff would be better and it should not be too much trouble making a few block molds out of plywood, or stainless steel if one happens to me a metalsmith. I don't know if the test is done from just in front of the muzzle, or from 100 yards away. If it is 100 yards, that would allow a 5-inch-X-5-inch target area to shoot from.

Great stuff guys, will look into doing this experiment in a few months time....

Thanks for all your help.