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Facler Water Box
For the home experimenters out their I thought I would mention the Facler Water Box for testing bullet expansion.
My last one was constructed with a 2 X 12 Bottom Board and 2 X 8 Side Boards. I made the length 4 Foot.
Simply make a 3 sided box with the 2 X 8's as sides. Adjust as required for a good fit on the Zip Loc Bags.
I cut a hole to shoot through in a scrap piece of plywood for the front to stack the Zip Loc Bags against.
Fill up your Quart bags with water, Shoot, and measure how deep the Main part of the bullet went. You can probably tell where it came apart, if it did also.
The Old Formula is Take the Bullet Penetration Depth in Water X 1.8 to get the corresponding Penetration Depth in 10% Gel.
Not perfect, but as close as us normal mortals will get to ballistic Gel results.
AND it makes for a fun experiment.
Bob R
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