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From: steve@gumby.Altos.COM (Steve Scherf)
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: Re: Ordinance Gelatin, where to get it?
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Date: 25 May 91 05:19:23 GMT
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In article <34470@mimsy.umd.edu> decwrl!well.sf.ca.us!well!tmi@uunet.UU.NET (Peter Kasler) writes:
] Dux-Seal, for example, yields large wound cavities that bear little or no
] relationship to temporal or permanent wound cavities in human tissue.
] Likewise,
] recovered bullets do not necessarily deform the same in such media as they
] deform in human soft tissue, whereas wounding potential and bullet
] deformation
] in human tissue is well-correlated to ballistic gelatin.

Why go to all this trouble? Won't a side of beef work well for testing
"wounding potential"?
-- 
Steve Scherf
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These opinions are solely mine, but others may share them if they like.