Post by: kselkhunter on May 31, 2018, 03:17:21 PM
Water jugs?
Ballistics gel?
Homemade bullet trap?
I don't want to spend an arm and a leg on the test medium. I have a couple of different bullets coming in for muzzleloader and some rifle calibers, some with custom variations, and want to test the bullets for simulated on-game performance as best I can on a low budget.
Any suggestions?
@yorketransport
Care to share some details or advice from your experience on your custom bullet trap design from the "bullet trap results" thread?
Post by: yorketransport on May 31, 2018, 06:59:12 PM
I still have a pretty good stash of the leather that I used if you're in the Tacoma/Olympia area.
Post by: kselkhunter on May 31, 2018, 07:21:12 PM
Post by: Stein on May 31, 2018, 07:44:25 PM
Post by: yorketransport on May 31, 2018, 07:56:57 PM
I use elk.
I thought about doing that but the folks at NW Trek freaked out and asked me to leave the property. :chuckle:
Post by: Stein on May 31, 2018, 08:01:09 PM
Post by: shootem on May 31, 2018, 08:14:54 PM
Post by: hunter399 on May 31, 2018, 09:54:11 PM
Post by: CP on June 05, 2018, 04:06:23 PM
My recipe is in this thread:
https://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,212635.45.html
Post by: yorketransport on June 05, 2018, 05:29:13 PM
Home made gel.
My recipe is in this thread:
https://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,212635.45.html
This combined with the leather may be the perfect combo.
Post by: jaymark6655 on June 05, 2018, 05:57:14 PM
Post by: jasnt on June 05, 2018, 06:17:40 PM
that would be a good test. Looking threw your bullet test thread yorke I see a lot of pics are messed upHome made gel.
My recipe is in this thread:
https://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,212635.45.html
This combined with the leather may be the perfect combo.
Post by: yorketransport on June 05, 2018, 06:53:10 PM
that would be a good test. Looking threw your bullet test thread yorke I see a lot of pics are messed upHome made gel.
My recipe is in this thread:
https://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,212635.45.html
This combined with the leather may be the perfect combo.
Yea, Photobucket wants a ridiculous amount of money to keep using 3rd party hosting so most of my images don't work now. I just need to go back update the links in all of the pictures to a new site like Imgur and I'm just too lazy to do it. :chuckle:
Post by: BNAElkhntr on June 05, 2018, 07:43:54 PM
Post by: kselkhunter on June 05, 2018, 08:50:06 PM
Post by: jaymark6655 on June 07, 2018, 04:05:47 PM
Post by: jasnt on June 07, 2018, 04:34:28 PM
Maybe I missed it in other thread, but what is that block cast in, what size is it and how much total powder did you need?:yeah:
Post by: kselkhunter on June 07, 2018, 04:43:45 PM
Post by: Yondering on June 08, 2018, 09:14:08 AM
Thanks for the great ideas folks. I think the combination of the homemade ballistics gel and the soaked leather will make a good combination of media. So I can get a picture of the wound cavity through the gel, and something a little more resistant to stop the bullet but not too hard to mess with deformation, like the leather.
If you really want a good prediction of what your bullets should do, plan to test them in several different test mediums, and compare to some known good standard, like a Nosler Partition for example. If you don't have a good standard to compare to, the test is pretty meaningless.
At a minimum I like to do separate tests in water jugs, wet paper, dry paper, and some sort of bone if possible in front or inside the wet mediums. All of those tell you different things about what the bullet can do. York's wet leather scraps sound good too, although I haven't tried that myself. Gel is good if tightly controlled, but can give you wide variations in results if you let temperature and consistency fluctuate.
For testing defense (anti-people) rounds, I like to throw in some barriers too, like car door sheet metal, glass, denim, etc as those things also have an effect on performance.
Post by: Special T on June 08, 2018, 11:20:02 AM
Water jugs, wet magazines, giant gummy bears....
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Post by: Mongo Hunter on June 14, 2018, 01:33:47 PM