Experiment with 10% Ballistic Gel - in Slow-Motion:

Another great day up-country on our certified club range in Hurunui in the South Island of New Zealand last Sunday - a religious experience for sure..

- Our "cook" J- has been busy brewing-up more edible 'albatross flavour' jelly so we sent a small sample from some shooting tools we had with us down range - through the 'bigger-block'.

SLOW MOTION GEL VIDEO.

- Surprises - for me anyway,- were that the .22" Rim-fires, - both super- and sub- fully penetrated and exited the twelve inch block. - My guess would have been that they'd have fallen short - but obviously their limited cross-sectional area allowed for full penetration.

- It might be that a couple of layers of denim cloth would have changed that.

Also interesting that the .223"  (from an AR15 rifle) plastic-tipped hunting round fully broke-up inside the Gel and didn't exit the block, - but it certainly gave it a hell of a whack when dumping all its energy eh.

- As did too the .44 MAGNUM - no doubting the punch from that big-boy either. - And the 12g Shotgun did its' duty - beyond the call:

12 gauge at four or five metres.

Sectioned Block.

The subsonic 9mm was my home-brewed 158gn copper plated flat-nose running at 900ft-per-sec.

For any of you guys interested in the "Gel-Thing" - 'J' says that it's dead easy to cook-up a mix that "even Walter White would be proud of"! (-should have added some blue ink!)

- He bought 5kg of '200 Bloom' gelatine crystals from Davis Trading Co, Wigram (Christchurch). He just added the contents of a 1kg packet of crystals to 9 litres of water hot from the house tap while telling the missus that he was doing the washing-up? - Whisk it up with a slow(ish) power drill and home-made bent wire whisk - careful not to fill the brew with bubbles. - Empty the fridge (- leaving the beer) - and make room to chill it all off and then listen attentively to the significant others lecture on what is acceptable domestic behaviour.

- You don't want lumps but equally you don't want bubbles - Or maybe a messy divorce either after leaving it in the fridge for three days eh..

 - There are of-course some advantages on being divorced and living alone in the hills - all that house-work but..  I must get the vacuum cleaner out of the spare bedroom some time next year.

P.S. IF you are anywhere near a large block of ballistic gel - do a sly walk-by and give it a flat-hand slap - the whack'n'wobble is most pleasing for any male-chauvinist-pig.

Marty K.