Thread: A question for the doubters

Originally Posted by woods223

Maybe we should go back to using pig carcasses for comparative analysis like various military forces worldwide used to do before they moved to ballistic gel which is cheaper and easier to source. Pigs were thought to be closest to human body structure for wound analysis, bullet performance.

Yeah something is up with the pictured comparisons, that lets me think its not giving us a true indicator. Im not a physicist, and maybe i'm missing something?Its quite possible, this isn't things i think about every day. To my Mind the heavier projectile at same speed should have more kinetic energy and more momentum. yet the final wound channel looks similar and the penetration of the heavier projectile was less.
So what that leads me to beleive; is that maybe the elasticity of the ballistic material is covering up some info, and that the heavier projectile is transferring its energy more efficiently.