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From: webdw@mvutd.att.com (Bruce D Woods)
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: Re: Ordinance Gelatin, where to get it?
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Date: 28 May 91 16:27:39 GMT
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In article <34882@mimsy.umd.edu> steve@gumby.Altos.COM (Steve Scherf) writes:
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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"?
#-- 

Some gun writers use duct seal media (Dean Grennell for one).