I understand our needs today to quantify everything bullets based on formulas and charts, but we seem to ignore a lot of stuff in the process, foremost being bullet construction as we talk "numbers".
There are modelling programs out there that cover the "numbers" for differences in bullet contruction,design and materials, and they also show the susceptible stress & fatigue zones and how they effect the bullet deforming during the penetration process of your chosen test media/medias.
Originally Posted by BobinNH
I'm sure we can come close in uniform media predicting exactly what a bullet will always do .........but what happens after hit hits 3" of soggy or mud caked hide, then muscle, sinew,bone of varying density (like a brick wall)..... and then gooey, soft stuff (vitals), and then back into the tougher going of more muscle and bone?
Todays modern bullet fatigue modelling programs also allow you to create a test media with multiple/varied composition. what you need are the assigned individual values of mud, hide,muscle, bone, etc, .to insert into the program.
(btw:-) bone is not like a brick, bone is rather high in moisture content and rather elastic , compared to a brick....put those two different media values into a modelling program and it will clearly highlight the difference.
-Bulletproof and Waterproof don't mean Idiotproof.
