Great post. There is so much BS floating around about terminal ballistics it's good to see some scientific info with supporting evidence making it into a hunting forum.
Ballistic gel simulates what happens in tissue in a repeatable and measurable way. It has been compared to terminal performance in human and animal tissue for decades and found to be the best method available to predict what a projectile will do in an actual tissue impact. The absolute worst-case scenario is that gel provides a relative/comparative measurement of bullet performance. No don side to that.
